The masterpieces of literature have it in common that we are inactive discovering fresh content in them. For the first time in advanced school, I met with the good “Lalka” of Prussia, about the Bonapartism of Ignacy Rzecki I think I wrote any essay – and I treated it as a manifestation of his surprise.
Then erstwhile I read more about the past of France and Europe, I changed my mind. In 1878, erstwhile the novel's action began, Bonapartism was already lost – but clearly only to the readers of the "Doll" 10 years later.
However, the French 3rd Republic may have seemed to have shared the destiny of the erstwhile two. After a fewer years of parliamentary disputes, individual will again carry out a coup – and why shouldn't this end for the 3rd time with another Bonaparte?
It was all the more likely that the first president of the 3rd Republic was her perfect opponent: sworn monarch, Marquis MacMahon. In the first election, the monarchs won a majority (396 out of 638 tickets).
Unlike its 2 predecessors, the III Republic was to be a temporary creation. According to the principle, “there is nothing more lasting than a makeshifter”, it has survived 70 years.
Monarchists were divided into legitimists and eagleists. With their 20 mandates, the Bonapartists were kind of a center: no monarchic, no Republican.
In 1877 MacMahon made an unsuccessful effort at a monarchy coup, which Rzecki mentions at the beginning of the novel. His hopes that this was an introduction to Napoleon IV's enthronement were evidently impenetrable, but not as idiotic as I thought in advanced school.
Today, erstwhile I and my generation have reached the age of an "old subiekt", I see a different dimension of its bonapartism. I already put it on Facebook, in the form of an ironic revision of the applicable passage – in which Ignacy Rzecki hopes to return Donald Tusk from exile from Brussels.
On the occasion of the anniversary of June 4th, I had half a Facebook filled with memories of individual spreading posters. If we can reconstruct the energy and optimism of August 1980 and June 1989... the united authority of the Pope and the Wałęsa will overthrow the Law and Justice and Donald Tusk will ascend the throne.
Dear 50-year-olds, that's impossible. This “Solidarity” is dead present like Bonapartism in 1878.
I myself am active in “Solidarity” and I have the impression that the historical heritage is hindering alternatively than helping to accomplish statutory objectives.
From 1976 to 1989, the inhabitants of the Polish People's Republic of Poland suffered a systematic decline in the standard of living. The strategy simply ate up simple reserves and had no realistic improvement way – people had had adequate of it due to the fact that it gave them no hope for anything, for an apartment, for toilet paper, for a road repair.
As a result, the average Kowalski was just tired of this system. He was not curious in repairing it, he wanted to get free of it, to make it “as in the West”.
Is he sick of ducking today? Of course not.
Kowalski's standard of life has steadily increased since 2015. due to the fact that social transfers, due to the fact that the economy is good, due to the fact that the labour marketplace is little favoured by the employer.
I don't know what the opposition should offer Kowalski. But the indecisive attitude towards social transfers (which the opposition condemns, declaring at the same time that it will leave it and even increase it), surely does not facilitate its task.
And it will surely not be saved by Lech Wałęsa, a forest grandpa whose more eccentric statements – about the request to destruct the European Union or about contacts with alien civilizations – even his followers effort to let go despite their ears, or sigh that “something bad has happened to him lately” due to the fact that they will not pass through the keyboard's banal constatation that HE WAS ALWAYS SO.
August-June nostalgia is not a political agenda for today. My generation simply yearned for this falcon sight, for this lipidogram, for this diastolic force we had in the 1980s (and Rzecki during the Spring of the Peoples).
Bonaparte never returned to the throne. A mediocre consolation is that the Bourbons have not returned either. They were so engulfed in disputes about who, as he had harmed whom from 1791 to 1848, did not announcement how a completely different force was increasing in France.
Maybe that'll save us now, too. Although Kaczyński owes his power to social transfers, he does not seem to announcement it, and he again began to lie about the circular Table (my brother did not drink vodka in Magdalena!). I think he made a bit of a fool of himself in front of his constituents.
I hope there's yet a Gambetta.
