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Worcell Stanisław Gabriel
(1799—1857)

Stanisław Gabriel Worcell was a revolutionary, social and political writer. Stanislaw Worcell had participated in the uprising of 1830 and in 1847 in the Brussels Association democratique. Worcell was a partisan of the Utopian socialism which he combined with the mysticism based on evangelical ideas of social equality In his dissertation O własności (1854, On Ownership) he presented vision of an ideal society of the future, in which the collective ownership was to replace the private one. This concept was linked with the idea of national liberation.

Impressed by revolutionary events during the Spring of Nations, Worcell wrote the text Polska — Węgry (Poland — Hungary) published in instalments in "Demokrata Polski" (Polish Democrat) in 1849. In this work, he foresaw building of a European federation composed of regional unions of independent nations. There were three political systems to come into existence in Europe: west-south with France, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, central with Germany and possibly Scandinavia and north-east centred around Poland and reaching from the Baltic till the Black Sea. In his opinion, establishing a Polish-Hungarian-Romanian-Vlach federation was necessary to ensure the peace and order in Europe. He perceived federations as unions whose aim was to solve conflicts and to speak unanimously in external relations without infringing national sovereignty and identity.

Poland, 1948, Worcell, Sciegienny and Dembowski