Who Lost America?  Why the United States Went “Communist” and What to Do About It

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A discussion in Warsaw, Poland, on October 3 about the neo-Marxist drift in the United States, based on Stephen Baskerville’s latest book “Who Lost America?  Why the United States Went “Communist” and What to Do About It.”

The radicalization of the Left in the United States and the rapid transformation of the Democratic Party will have consequences not only for Americans but for the West as a whole. Poland, with its reliance on NATO for its security against Russia, and with its traditionally very pro-American society, should pay attention to this phenomenon that is occurring over three decades after the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. No wonder then that the Ordo Iuris Institute, as Poland’s main conservative think tank and one of the biggest legal think tanks on the Right in Europe, decided to support the publishing of a book written by an American author on the subject.

“Who Lost America?  Why the United States Went “Communist” and What to Do About It” is the title of a book written by the American political theorist Stephen Baskerville and published by Arktos Media, a publishing house based in Budapest, Hungary.

Previously a Professor of Government at Patrick Henry College, Baskerville currently teaches at the Collegium Intermarium in Warsaw but now lives in another Central European country, Romania. His previous books include “The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Government Power” (2017) and “Not Peace But a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution” (1993, 2018).  His work is available at www.StephenBaskerville.com, where links can be found to reviews of the new book.

As in most countries that have experienced Soviet-style communism, people in Poland do perceive the new brand of Marxism that is taking hold of the West, coming in large part from the epicenter of the American Empire.

Official book launch with a discussion in Warsaw on October 3

Baskerville’s book is a must-read for all freedom-loving Americans and Westerners. On October 3 in Warsaw, the Ordo Iuris Institute will organize a presentation on “Who Lost America?  Why the United States Went “Communist” and What to Do About It” together with a discussion on the subject topic.

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The participants of this discussion will be Prof. Stephen Baskerville himself, as well as Prof. Ryszard Legutko and Paweł Lisicki from Poland, alongside Irishman Kevin Myers.

Prof. Ryszard Legutko was, until earlier this year, a member of the European Parliament where he was co-president of the European Conservatives and Reformists group. A philosopher, he is also the author of many books, including one published in 2016 under the title “The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies,” which was much commented on throughout Europe.

Paweł Lisicki is a renowned Polish journalist who is also the editor-in-chief of the influential conservative Polish weekly Do Rzeczy. As an essayist, Lisicki is the author of many books about theology and history, including one which was published in 2023 in Polish under the title “The Empire of Sodom and its Allies. Sketches on the decline of Western civilization with a note of optimism in spite of everything.” In the Polish media, Paweł Lisicki often comments on the woke, totalitarian drift that has been going on in the USA, raising the alarm among his fellow countrymen about the implications this could have on Poland’s security and democracy in the future.

Kevin Myers is an Irish journalist and writer now working for the Brussels Signal. He has a long history of writing for various renowned press outlets like the Irish Independent, The Irish Times, and The Sunday Times. Among other topics, Kevin Myers often writes about the radical shift of the American Left, warning Europeans of what is taking place on the other side of the Atlantic.

The discussion will be preceded by a word of introduction on the book by Stephen Baskerville himself and also by Constantin von Hoffmeister, from Arktos. Ordo Iuris’ Rafał Dorosiński, head of the Ordo Iuris Civilization project, will also explain why our institute felt this book is so important.

The discussion will take place in English and will be translated into Polish. It will be transmitted live in English on the Ordo Iuris Institute’s YouTube channel starting at 6 p.m. Central European Time (CET) on October 3.

The video of the event will later be made available in both English and Polish. The link to the live YouTube transmission is available here and will also be made available on the social media of the Ordo Iuris Institute on October 3.

The full discussion in English (with two introductory parts in Polish subtitled in English) added on October 12: