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Kołłątaj's Forge
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The Kołłątaj's Forge (Polish: Kuźnica Kołłątajowska) was a group of social and political activists, publicists and writers from the period of the Great Sejm in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Centered on Hugo Kołłątaj, one of the most prominent thinkers of the Polish Enlightenment,[1] the Forge (Kuźnica) activists formed a radical, leftist faction of the reform supporters (the Patriotic Party, an organization that has been called the first Polish political party).[2][3] They disseminated news and ideas of the French Revolution in Poland.[4] Their pamphlets criticized feudalism and privileges of the nobility.[5][6] Their name, Kołłataj's Forge, was given to them by their political opponents, and was originally pejorative.[7][8]