National Democracy

National Democracy also called Endecja (clipping of Narodowa Demokracja) is a polish nationalist political movement.

Origins
The origins of the ND can be traced to the 1864 failure of the January 1863 Uprising and to the era of Positivism in Poland. After that Uprising – the last in a series of 19th-century Polish uprisings – had been bloodily crushed by Poland's partitioners, a new generation of Polish patriots and politicians concluded that Poland's independence would not be won through force on the battlefield, but through education and culture.

In 1886 the secret Polish League (Liga Polska) was founded. In 1893 it was renamed National League (Liga Narodowa). From 1895 the League published a newspaper, Przegląd Wszechpolski (The All-Polish Review), and from 1897 it had an official political party, the National-Democratic Party (Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne). Unlike the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), the ND advocated peaceful negotiations, not armed resistance. Influenced by Roman Dmowski's radical nationalist and social-Darwinist ideas, National Democrats soon turned against other nationalities within the Polish lands, most notably the Jews; anti-Semitism became an element of ND ideology.

During World War I, while the PPS under Józef Piłsudski supported the Central Powers against Russia (through the Polish Legions), the ND first allied itself with the Russian Empire (supporting the creation of the Puławy Legion) and later with the Western Powers (supporting the Polish Blue Army in France). At war's end, many ND politicians enjoyed more influence abroad than in Poland. This allowed them to use their leverage to share power with Piłsudski, who had much more support in the military and in the country proper than they did. And because of their support abroad ND politicians such as Dmowski and Ignacy Paderewski were able to gain backing for their demands at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and in the Treaty of Versailles.

Second Polish Republic
In the newly independent Second Polish Republic, the ND was represented first by the Popular National Union (Związek Ludowo-Narodowy), a conservative political party advocating their program through democratic and parliamentary political means. After Piłsudski's May 1926 Coup d'État, the ND found itself in constant opposition to his Sanacja government. The tightening of Sanacja 's controls on opposition parties and its general authoritarian drift led to the gradual radicalization of the ND movement. In December 1926, the Camp of Great Poland (Obóz Wielkiej Polski) was created as an extra-parliamentary organization in opposition to the Sanacja government. The youth faction of the Camp of Great Poland gradually took control over the whole organization, and from 1931 the camp quickly radicalized and even adopted some militaristic elements.

In 1928 the National Party (Stronnictwo Narodowe) was founded, as a successor party to the Popular National Union. In the beginning, the new party adopted the same political line as its predecessor. After the official banning of the Camp of Great Poland, radicalized youth entered the National Party. The ideological clash between the old and new generation of National Democrats culminated at the party convention in 1935 where the younger activists were elected to lead the party. In 1936–1939 the personnel changes within the party continued, and the young generation totally began its complete domination. The older generation of National Democrats, disagreeing with the new course, left active politics or exited the party completely. A chief characteristic of ND policies at this time was their emphasis on Polonization of minorities: ND politicians such as Dmowski and Stanisław Grabski contributed to the failure of Piłsudski's proposed Międzymorze federation and the alliance with the Ukrainian leader Symon Petlura, as well as to the alienation of Poland's ethnic minorities.

Simultaneously the ND emphasized its anti-Semitic stance, intending to exclude Jews from Polish social and economic life and ultimately to push them to emigration out of Poland. Antisemitic actions and incidents – boycotts, demonstrations, even attacks – organized or inspired by National Democrats occurred during the 1930s. The most notorious actions were taken by a splinter group of radical young former NDs who formed the fascist-inspired National Radical Camp (Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny).

World War 2
During World War II, the ND became part of a coalition which formed the Polish Government in Exile. It was closely linked with the National Armed Forces (Narodowe Siły Zbrojne), an underground organization that became part of the Polish resistance movement. ND armed organizations fought not only against Nazi Germany but also against the Soviet Union. Both occupying forces regarded members of the movement as their mortal enemy, and its leaders were hunted down and killed in mass executions, in concentration camps, and in the Katyń massacre.

After the war
After the war, when a communist, pro-Soviet government took power in Poland, most remaining NDs either emigrated to the West or continued to oppose the Soviet communist puppet regime. Others joined the new regime – most notably, the RNR-Falanga leader Bolesław Piasecki, who co-organized a Catholic movement.

Today's Poland
Since the fall of communism, with Poland once again a democratically governed country, several political parties have sought to re-establish some ND traditions; their adherents prefer to call themselves the "national movement" (ruch narodowy). The only significant party that declared itself a successor to the ND was the League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzin), founded in 2001 by Roman Giertych, grandson of Jędrzej Giertych, a pre-war ND politician. It received 8% of the parliamentary vote in 2001 and 16% in 2004, but then fell below the 5% threshold in 2007 and lost all its parliamentary seats.

Another Polish national-democratic association with legal standing is the Camp of Great Poland. The association was established on March 28, 2003, as a response of the National Party (Stronnictwo Narodowe; SN) Youth Section to the deletion of the party from the national registry. On February 17, 2012 the OWP was registered in the National Registrar of Companies and Legal Entities (Krajowy Rejestr Sądowy; KRS), gaining legal personality.

Today the main party promoting National Democracy is the National Movement and the youth organisation All-Polish Youth (Młodzież Wszechpolska). The party was formed originally as a nationalist coalition by Robert Winnicki, Krzysztof Bosak, and other defectors from the LPR. As of 2019 it declared coalition Confederation (Konfederacja) mainly with KORWiN and Konfederacja Korony Polskiej. In the national elections held on 13 October 2019, Confederation obtained 6.81% of the votes and 11 members in the Sejm: Ruch Narodowy has 5 deputies, the same amount as KORWiN and Korona has 1 despute.

Stylistic Notes
TBA

How to Draw
Natdem_flag.svg
 * 1) Draw a ball.
 * 2) Fill the left half white and the right half red.
 * 3) Draw a black letter N on the white side.
 * 4) Draw a white letter D on the red side.
 * 5) Add the eyes.
 * 6) (Optional) Draw it upside-down (as a reference to Polandball)

Friendly

 * [[File:Conserv.png]] Conservatism - Based! Only tradition makes it possible to unite a nation.
 * [[File:Nation.png]] Nationalism - Thank you for showing me the importance of the nation, kumplu
 * [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism - Private property and free markets? Based, but you have to reject that globalist thing.
 * [[File:Dem.png]] Democracy - TBA
 * [[File:Austrobert.png]] Austrolibertarianism - Even though you are too anti-state, you have many good ideas on how to organize the economy. Also, Adam Heydel is based.
 * [[File:Reactlib.png]] Reactionary Liberalism - Polish liberalism,they're a very good pals[[File:Korona.png]][[File:Korwinism-Pikselart.png]].
 * [[File:Korwinism-Pikselart.png]] Korwinism - Polish right-winger compatriot and coalition partner.
 * [[File:Natlib.png]] National Libertarianism - Our coalition: Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość.
 * [[File:Plcn2.png]] Paleoconservatism - despite being american we understand very well each other.
 * [[File:Nalib.png]] National Liberalism - A bit too moderate but Rybarsky was a great economist and patriot also you're doing a good work around Latin civilisation.

Mixed

 * [[File:Distributist.png]] Distributism - Maybe you are in conflict with economic views of the old National Democracy, but you are still my ally, right?
 * [[File:Nazcapf.png]] National Capitalism - Great economic policy but too Authoritarian, undemocratic and racist Even for me.

Negative

 * [[File:ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - BIJ BOLSZEWIKA W KAŻDEJ GO POSTACI, BO TO JEST TWÓJ NAJWIĘKSZY DZISIAJ WRÓG!



Texts
(Note: Most texts about the national democratic movement aren't translated)

Roman Dmowski

 * Poland, Old and New


 * Myśli nowoczesnego Polaka (The Thoughts of a modern Pole)
 * Polityka polska i odbudowanie państwa (Polish Politics and the Rebuilding of the Nation-State)
 * Kościół, naród i państwo (The Church, The Nation and the State)
 * Przewrót (The Overturn)
 * Zagadnienie rządu (The Role of Government)
 * Upadek myśli konserwatywnej w Polsce (The Fall of Conservative Thought in Poland)
 * Niemcy, Rosja i kwestia polska (Germany, Russia and Polish Matters)
 * Nasz patriotyzm (Our Patriotism)

Other authors

 * Z doby przełomu myśli narodowej, Egoizm narodowy wobec etyki, Zasady wychowania narodowego by Zygmunt Balicki
 * Wczoraj i jutro, Akademik i Polityka by Jan Mosdorf
 * Naród a Armia by Stanisław Haller
 * O ład w historii, On Plurality of Civilisations by Feliks Koneczny
 * Sztuka i Naród by Andrzej Trzebiński
 * Nowy porządek. Tezy konstytucyjne by Krzysztof Bosak

Works from outside perspective

 * Chauvinism, Polish Style: The Case of Roman Dmowski by Grzegorz Krzywiec

Wikipedia

 * National Democracy
 * Camp of Great Poland

Parties

 * National-Democratic Party (Poland,1897-1919)
 * Popular National Union (Poland,1919-1928)
 * National Party (Poland,1928-1947)
 * Camp of Great Poland (1926-1933)
 * Federation for the Republic of Poland (Poland) (Page in Polish)
 * National Movement (Poland)
 * Right Bloc (Russia)

People

 * Roman Dmowski
 * Zygmunt Balicki
 * Jan Ludwik Popławski


 * Roman Rybarski
 * Adam Doboszyński
 * Andrzej Trzebiński
 * Jędrzej Giertych
 * Stanisław Grabski
 * Władysław Grabski
 * Władysław Konopczyński
 * Jan Mosdorf
 * Edward Taylor (Page in Polish)
 * Ignacy Chrzanowski