KOR: Ethics of a Movement

The Workers’ Defense Committee represented not only a specific idea of social action but also a certain style of action, which was refined gradually over the course of several years…

Above all, KOR meant social and not political activity; this was a consequence of its initial assumptions, although they need not have been reflected in reality. Obviously, some members of KOR (such as Jacek Kurofi, Adam Michnik, and Antoni Macierewicz) were political activists above all, both in their temperament and interests. As a result it became necessary for them to distinguish their activities in KOR from their own political writings, for which they alone were responsible. Among the members and associates of KOR were some who held w...