Andrew M. Lobaczewski
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[Review] Political Ponerology: Psychopathic Elite & 'Evil' by DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND

[2001] Ponerology 101: Lobaczewski and the origins of Political Ponerology by Harrison Koehli

Book
 Political Ponerology.  The Scientific Study of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes by Andrew M. Lobaczewski
    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: The scientific study of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes 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. ISBN 1-897244-18-5

External links
Ponerology: The Science of Evil

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/political_ponerology_lobaczewski.htm

Quotes
"The biological, psychological, moral and economic destruction of the majority of normal people becomes, for the pathocrats, a biological necessity." ~ Dr Andrew Łobaczewski

"Mankind has a natural predator, the psychopath, and this predator is invisible because there are no easily discernible markings that set him apart.....Early in the book, Łobaczewski describes his experiences in university where he first encountered the phenomenon. He went into the library to get some books on the question of Psychopathy and found to his amazement that they had all been removed! This fact demonstrates a self-awareness of their difference amongst at least some of them, and in the case of Poland under communism, of those in a position of power highly enough placed to get books removed from the university library.....approximately 18% of any given population is active in the creation and imposition of a Pathocracy (or the attempt to create and impose same). The 6% group constitute the Pathocratic nobility and the 12% group forms the new bourgeoisie, whose economic situation is the most advantageous."---  The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others

''Once the book was completed in 1984 and a suitable translation made into English, he was unable to get it published. The psychology editors told him it was 'too political', and the political editors told him it was 'too psychological'. He enlisted the help of his compatriot, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who had just previously served as President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser and who initially praised the book and promised to help get the book published. Unfortunately, after some time spent corresponding Brzezinski became silent, responding only to the effect that it was a pity it hadn't worked out. In Łobaczewski's words, 'he strangled the matter, treacherously'.''  In Memoriam: Andrzej M Łobaczewski

Video

 
Political Ponerology A presentation of Andrew Lobaczewski's masterpiece on psychopathy and pathocracy : Political Ponerology. How to understand macrosocial Evil.