The renowned Polish philosopher, Leszek Kolakowski, will be buried in his native Poland after dying in his adopted country of Great Britain last month, aged 81. Professor Kolakowski became one of the world’s leading philosophical adversaries of Marxism, after being a member of the Polish United Workers Party (Poland’s Communist Party) for many years.Born in October 1927, Kolakowski was the son of an economist who was also a left-wing political activist. After the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939,…
