Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes

Stalin repression and secret arrests of researchers in the early

sixties. The remaining scientific data in my possession were

very incomplete, albeit priceless in value. It took many years of

lonely work to weld these fragments into a coherent whole,

filling the lacunae with my own experience and research.

My research on essential psychopathy and its exceptional

role in the macrosocial phenomenon, was conducted concur-

rently with, or shortly after, that of others. Their conclusions

reached me later and confirmed my own. The most characteris-

tic item in my work is the general concept for a new scientific

discipline named “ponerology” . The reader will also find other

fragments of information based on my own research. I also

effected an overall synthesis to the best of my ability.

As the author of the final work, I hereby express my deep

respect for all those who initiated the research and continued to

conduct it at the risk of their careers, health and lives. I pay

homage to those who paid the price through suffering or death.

May this work constitute some compensation for their sacri-

fices, regardless of where they may be today. Times more con-

ducive to an understanding of this material may recall their

names, both those which I never knew and those I have since

forgotten.

New York, N.Y. August 1984.

PREFACE

TO THE RED PILL PRESS EDITION

Twenty years have passed since the writing of this book. I

became a very old man. One day, my computer put me in con-

tact with the Scientists of the Quantum Future Group who con-

vinced me that the time had matured for my book to become

useful and to serve the future of humanity. They took the trou-

ble of publishing it.

The passing of these last twenty years has been fraught with

political occurrences. Our world has changed in essential ways

due to the natural laws of the phenomenon described in this

book. Knowledge has increased dramatically thanks to the

efforts of the people of good will. Nonetheless, our world is not

yet restored to good health; and the remainders of the great

disease are still active. The illness has reappeared connected to

another ideology. The laws of the genesis of evil are working

in millions of individual cases of individuals and families. The

political phenomena threatening peace are confronted by mili-

tary force. The small-scale occurrences are condemned or re-

strained by the word of moral science. The result is that great

efforts of the past, undertaken without the support of objective

natural knowledge about the very nature of evil, have been

insufficient and dangerous. All these efforts have been made

without taking into account that great maxim of medicine that

serves as a motto in this book: Ignota nulla curatio morbid.*

The end of Communist subjugation has come at a high price,

* Do not attempt to cure what you do not understand.

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and those nations that now think they are free will soon find

they are paying still.

The question must be asked: why was this work, produced

by eminent researchers and the author for just this purpose – to

prevent the spread of the disease of macrosocial evil, not able

to perform its function?

This is a long story.

I had been recognized as the bearer of this “dangerous” sci-

ence in Austria by a “friendly” physician who then was re-

vealed to be an agent of Communist Secret Services. All the

Red nodes and networks in New York were mobilized to orga-

nize a counteraction against the information contained in this

book being made publicly and widely available. It was terrible

to learn that the overt system of suppression I had so recently

escaped was just as prevalent, though more covert, in the

United States. It was demoralizing to see how the system of

conscious and unconscious pawns worked; to watch people

who trusted their conscious “friends” – unknown to them as

Communist agents - and performed the insinuated activities

against me with such patriotic zeal. As a result of these activi-

ties, I was refused any assistance, and to survive, I had to take

work as a labourer when already of an age to retire. My health

collapsed and two years were lost.

I learned also that I was not the first such emissary who had

come to America bringing similar knowledge; I was rather the

third one; the other two had been similarly dealt with.

In spite of all these circumstances, I persevered and the

book was finally written in 1984 and carefully translated into

English. It was esteemed by those who read it as being “very

informative”, but it was not published. For the psychological

editors it was “too political”; for political editors, it contained

too much psychology and psychopathology. In some cases, the