Naimark: “Warsaw Postivism"

Some of the results of the failed uprising was increased legislation by the Russians to get the Polish Gentry to fall in line with russia. they emancipated the peasants, forbade Polish language and opened russian schools all to rob the gentry of any power they had. 328 Thsi caused the peasants and the ruined gentry to flood to the cities where industrialization was taking place.
"The Political ideology..." The historiography of the P and the Proletariat are often at odds, but they actually had more in common than they are given credit for. The differences tend to be about the insurectionist vs nationalist view points. 329 organic Work 331 Polish P were not philosophers, but journalists, economists and sociologists. they were looking for a better way to define they society and build it and became enanoured with Comte's empiricism and scientism. 332 swietochowski. 334 Prejected much, didn't build. 334 P called on the gentry to come together and for the intelligentsia to form better ties with the peasants and to work for and with them. 335 The P was not for equality of the classes as were the socialists. they wanted liberal economic growth ahead of political growth. 336 Prus called for greater education for the worker who were economically poor, but also illiterate. 337 The P were very interested in factory conditions for safety and insurance against injury and sanitation. They were staunch capitalists that were not for minimum wages, but sought out greater improvements for the worker through the increase in economic power overall in the state. 337 Thus the P were very passive in the lives of the workers and did not speak for them as would the socialists. 338 The question is raised about the patriotism of the P. they were for quiet patriotism, the kind that spoke for itself out of improved conditions, but did not wave it from a flag pole. 338 The P were for an end to dreaming and a beginning of working. They wanted to forget about the insurections and get people to be look for internal independence. 339 They were said to have worked agaisnt every evil in Poland except the political and the Tsar. 339 the year 1876 brought the beginning og the socialist movement to Warsaw. The marxist movement came from Russian Marxism, but it spread more quickly because of the existing liberal positivist movement that already called every facet of life into question. They also made great use of his name and wrote about socialism in unflattering ways, but gave it more of an audience all the same. 342 The P attacked the role that socialism would play in Poland and how it would incite anti-semitism. 344 The Polish intelligentsia was looking for something new to attach itself to and the articles explaining the tenets of socialsm by the positivists gave them the info they wanted. Anyone not interested in P would gravitate to Socialism from the P articles. 345