Common Organization of the Society

In the understanding of Sławek and related representatives of the Piłsudskiite elite (Wacław Makowski, Adam Skwarczyński and others), society was not to be subordinated to the state institution, it was rather a matter of maximally harmonizing the activities of both factors.

Thanks to the educative influence of the intelligentsia, the worker can become, according to Skwarczyński (who stands here, let us note, on the antipodes of the views of the integral syndicalist Georges Sorel, known for his view that workers should liberate themselves from the influence of intellectuals, harmful to their cause), “not a mercenary for pay, but a creator perfecting his craft, loving his product and feeling his organic and moral connection to it.”[3] In the weeks following the dissolution of the BBWR, Slawek attempted to concretize the principles of functioning that he wished to instill in the Sanacja camp, whose leader he still felt himself to be.

This lowest level, well-developed, was to provide a solid foundation for the entire organizational pyramid consisting of district, provincial, and finally national structures.

The goal of the POS was to cultivate and develop such qualities as selflessness, honesty, work for the benefit of the local community, manifested in the construction of roads, bridges, schools the establishment of fire departments, agricultural associations, etc.

Activists, people of concrete deed, who in place of party programs, usually demagogic and unrealistic, created material, socially useful things should power local governments, while the best should be in parliament.

His correspondence shows that in the summer of 1936 he began work on a text formulating, on the background of the history of the BBWR, remarks and conclusions “on the system of organization of the State.”[2] The POS concept is difficult to evaluate, as one would have to take into account the effects of implementation, and these sometimes differed from the intentions.

This was vividly demonstrated by the fate of the electoral law developed by Sławek, which, while formally preserving democracy, in fact introduced, through the kitchen door so to speak, authoritarianism.

In the words of Jan Hoppe: “Practice has shown that an equation mark should be placed between [...] the voice of social organizations and the will of the governor.“Sławek realized his mistake after the 1938 elections, when power passed into the hands of the OZN, and in the fall of that year, in an interview with "Słowo", he called for a change in the electoral law by deleting district assemblies.

Walery Sławek was the author of the concept of a socialized state, which he tried to put into practice.
The idea of socialized state was developed by Adam Skwarczyński , the main theorist of the Piłsudski's camp.
Administrative map of the Second Republic in 1938 . Most likely, the POS was to be built from the gminas, counties and voivodship councils, and would be topped by a Sejm elected from among its most prominent representatives.