Political Ponerology

Description

A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes

by Andrew M. Lobaczewski

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“This is an extraordinary book.” —Ilan Pappé, Professor of History, University of Exeter, and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“Political Ponerology is fascinating, essential reading.” —Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Stanford University, and author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

“I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is managing human or financial risk in this environment or is looking to create healthy change.” —Catherine Austin Fitts, founder of Solari Investment Advisory Services and Assistant Secretary of Housing ­ in the first Bush Administration

“I think everyone should read this book because it provides the keys necessary for understanding events that we often can’t comprehend.” —Silvia Cattori, freelance journalist

“Political Ponerology is an invaluable work that every human being striving to become conscious, should read, not only for its expose of the pathology of the individuals currently in control of the United States government, but also the light it may shed on individuals closer to home, some of whom may be friends, fellow-activists, business or civic leaders.” —Carolyn Baker, psychotherapist, professor of history and psychology, and author of Sacred Demise: Walking the Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse

“[Political Ponerology] impressed me in lots of ways and provoked me to think more about the nature and origin of what we call ‘evil’. … In all, a book I was pleased to have read and which I hope will continue to promote the study of how a certain kind of evil spreads. And especially in continuing to name as ‘evil’ things that many people are unable to see as such.” —Philip R. Davies, Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, and author of Whose Bible Is It Anyway?

The first manuscript of this book went into the fire five minutes before the arrival of the secret police in Communist Poland. The second copy, reassembled painfully by scientists working under impossible conditions of repression, was sent via a courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged, no word was ever heard from the courier – the manuscript and all the valuable data was lost. The third copy was produced after one of the scientists working on the project escaped to America in the 1980s. Zbigniew Brzezinski suppressed it.

Political Ponerology was forged in the crucible of the very subject it studies. Scientists living under an oppressive regime decide to study it clinically, to study the founders and supporters of an evil regime to determine what common factor is at play in the rise and propagation of man’s inhumanity to man.

Shocking in its clinically spare descriptions of the true nature of evil, poignant in the more literary passages where the author reveals the suffering experienced by the researchers who were contaminated or destroyed by the disease they were studying, this is a book that should be required reading by every citizen of every country that claims a moral or humanistic foundation. For it is a certainty that morality and humanism cannot long withstand the predations of Evil. Knowledge of its nature, how it creates its networks and spreads, how insidious is its guileful approach, is the only antidote.

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244 pages, ISBN: 978-1897244258, second edition published April 2007

Also available in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Latvian, Polish and Spanish.