Kazimierz Badowski (15 August 1907, Regów Stary – 6 July 1990) was a Polish

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activist.

Life

Career

Working as a docker in

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, he rose through the ranks of the

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to become a figure in the

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. In 1925, he left the party in the face of what he saw as an increasingly

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ideological outlook. He became a

Trotskyist Trotskyism (, ) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. Trotsky described himself as an ...

, founding the International Revolutionary Current, an informal network of various anti-Stalinist, Trotskyist and other

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organisations. He was able to survive all of the Nazi

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only to be imprisoned by Stalin in the early 1950s and again from 1962 to 1964. He promoted the

Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

language as part of the Trotskyist movement.

Death

He died in 1990, living his later years paralysed and unable to communicate. Nagrobek Kazimierza Badowskiego

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* 1907 births 1990 deaths Communist Party of Poland politicians Polish Trotskyists Polish Esperantists {{Poland-activist-stub