Staniszkis biography: the left-wing sociologist the Polish right claimed as their own

Journalist and sociologist Krzysztof Katkowski has published a biography of Jadwiga Staniszkis, arguing that her radicalism lay in her willingness to defend Marxism at a time when mainstream discourse treats it as untouchable — not in the reasons the Polish right has embraced her. The book examines the gap between Staniszkis's actual intellectual positions and her constructed public image as a conservative icon.

Was the Polish right justified in claiming Jadwiga Staniszkis as their intellectual?

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