Leszek Kołakowski
# Leszek Kołakowski

Leszek Kołakowski (Radom, Polônia, 23 de outubro de 1927 — Oxford, Inglaterra, 17 de julho de 2009) foi um eminente filósofo e historiador polonês. Foi mais conhecido por suas análises críticas do marxismo, particularmente por sua famosa obra histórica em três volumes, As principais correntes do marxismo.
    - We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.
       - The Idolatry of Politics, palestra dada na Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (1986)
    - Communism was not the crazy fantasy of a few fanatics, nor the result of human stupidity; it was a real, very real part of the history of the twentieth century, and we cannot understand this history of ours without understanding communism. We cannot get rid of this specter by saying it was just “human stupidity,” or “human corruptibility.” The specter is stronger than the spells we cast on it. It might come back to life.
       - Texto na introdução do livro "My Correct Views on Everything" - ISBN-13: 978-1587315251
    - Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century. It was a dream offering the prospect of a society of perfect unity, in which all human aspirations would be fulfilled and all values reconciled.
       - "Main Currents Of Marxism" (1978) - p.1206 - Traduzido por P. S. Falla, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005, ISBN 978-0-393-32943-8
    - It is trivially true that very often the blessings and the horrors of progress are inseparably tied to each other, as are the enjoyments and the miseries of traditionalism
       - Modernity on Endless Trial - cap. 1 - University Of Chicago Press; New edition edition (23 Jun. 1997) - ISBN-13: 978-0226450469