Polemic Adam Dąbrowski with Maciej Strzembosz.
The diagnosis of the organization strategy put up by Maciej Strzembosz in an article dated 8.01.2025 is fundamentally correct. Author, sketching ‘idealistic organization concept So for development’ he mentioned 5 basic conditions that it must meet in order to succeed. I will mention 1 by 1 to each of these points:
- “It must be built from below. Without prejudging who will be its leader.”
I find that unrealistic. All projects; commercial or social, built from scratch, are always based on the will, strength and determination to act leader or group of leaders. Their determination depends on the success of the project, especially in the first phase of its operation. At first, all organization is tiny and weak, lacks resources. The fresh organization has no media support, no budget funding. In the predator world, he'll be a cockroach. The cockroach has to last first and foremost, in order to recycle into a higher life form. In order to last the cockroach stage, the organization’s leadership has to show its spirit and will to fight. The top risks to the endurance of the organization are at the very beginning. The risks are both external and internal.
On the another hand, I agree with Maciej Strzembosz that specified a organization cannot by definition be a chief organization or a farm party. His assessment that the part with the chief's name in the name is aberration and pathology is absolutely correct. How, then, is it alternative? How do we get out of this problem? Well, in my opinion, there is only 1 solution: an enlightened directorate. A tiny group of leaders, motivated by idealistic reasons, who will guarantee the endurance of the karaluch party, will form its character, and erstwhile it comes out of the incubator, will transform it into a full functional democratic structure in which regional authorities are elected in the regions. How do we know that an organization from the cockroach phase will transform into a political animal of a new, desirable form? This can only guarantee the character of leaders – that is why we are talking about enlightened directorship. It is good for the enlightened directorate to be sufficiently enlightened to trust on the wisdom, cognition and advice of good, independent, professional people who would be an intellectual and moral sparring partner for him.
- "The organization must not tolerate any political transfers. The statutes must state that no 1 may be a organization associate who has belonged to another organization in the last 5 years.”
The direction of reasoning by Maciej Strzembosz is right. But if it is right, then we should draw to the limits of the possibilities of profit that flow from specified reasoning and usage it as a competitive advantage. Therefore, the above condition should be supplemented by a second condition: no 1 who has always been a associate of the PiSu and the PO or another parties who has always formed an election coalition with them can always become a associate of a fresh organization. Never and no transfers from these backgrounds. Never and none. If we have 29 million adult citizens in Poland, and Poland is experiencing an unprecedented phase of economical and intellectual improvement in its history, then it is easy to find in Poland respective 100 valuable people who were never in the PO or in the PiS or in the appetizer parties. Firstly, this argument can be utilized as the best marketing advantage for recruiting fresh staff. In Poland, there are quite a few people who treat the current organization policy with real disgust, but in rule would like to engage in public work. Reaching these people with the message that in the fresh organization they will never gotta compete with erstwhile members of PiSu and PO can become a immense competitive advantage. Secondly, the adoption of an eternally effective vaccine against COPIS will defend the fresh organisation from various risks. First of all, before the hazard of contamination with cultural and PO-PiS pathologies.
- “The election of the authorities shall take place only after a programme legislature which shall be convened 1 year after the organization has been established.”
It's unrealistic. The enlightened directorate must formulate itself at the very beginning and lead the cockroach to the level of organisational autonomy. In addition, the nature of today's politics, its strong mediation and social-mediation force the existence of strong, expressive leaders whose image in the first phase will be identified with the image of the fresh organization. The structure of political communication and its pictorial character are merciless.
- “The writing of the batch program is tedious, but does not require any investment.”
The programme must be an acceptable compromise between the directors. Leaders must believe what they represent. As far as the substance is concerned, I think it is right to take advantage of the support of experts. This, on the another hand, should be done in a form of closed, narrow consultation between leaders and experts. The Democratic discussion of the programme is another hazard origin for a roaring cockroach. Working on the program in an open form of meetings will lead to an argument, it will frequently uncover insignificant but strategically insignificant differences. We cannot let disputes on very delicate subjects, but strategically irrelevant.
- "A fresh organization should draw up an ethics code prohibiting the usage of words specified as traitor, enemy, fraud, lunatic, etc."
Definitely. The most clear differences for the public and the media compared to old environments should be in terms of human and cultural dimensions. The cultural dimension concerns both the reasoning of the state and politics, but besides the form and kind of communication.
There's nothing more fun in publishing than quoting classics. Also, as Lenin utilized to say: "Cares decide everything."
Adam Dąbrowski
