Marek Beylin

Marek Beylin is a journalist, writer and historian, who has collaborated with German, French and Czech colleagues on research on collective memory in society. Since the early 1990s Beylin has been working for Gazeta Wyborcza.

Populism: a European warning shot and what to do about it

This sudden emergence of populism was in fact a true sign of modernity. This is what you might describe as a warning shot – and when you see it happen, you have to realize that something is very wrong with democracy. An interview.

By Marek Beylin

/ 14 Jun 2013

The helpless and the resourceful, or the beginnings of Polish populisms

Poland has two populisms: “the populism of the dispirited”, mobilising those who struggled to adjust to life in the new Poland; and a form of neo-liberal populism, embracing free market capitalism and excluding those who did not prosper. Both have deep roots in Poland’s history.

By Marek Beylin

/ 18 Apr 2013