Szymon Konarski

Who was Szymon Konarski?

Szymon Konarski was a 19th-century Polish radical democratic politician and revolutionary. As a politician, he supported the radical idea of social and economic equality for all men, as well as the right of political and national liberty and self-governance.

Konarski supported the idea of land reform in the form of parceling out aristocratic estates among the poor peasants, and opposed the clergy. An ardent revolutionary, he believed in a revolution by all peoples of the Russian Empire, which would bring freedom and democracy to all.