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The aim of this article is to reconstruct the basic assumptions of Anatol Rapoport's (1911–2007) general systems theory. An in-depth study of his works and the unique materials collected in the archives of the University of Toronto served to achieve the goal. Additionally, the archival search made it possible to supplement his biography with previously unexplored information. The analysis proved that A. Rapoport highlighted two important themes that find application potential in contemporary political systems research. These are semantics and the network structure of the system.

Social sciences, understood as critical and not neutral by nature, they should be equipped with specific competencies and sensivity. C. W. Mills these comptence define as sociological imagination - which is study of the relationship of history and biography, Giddens interpreted it as three basic senses: historical, anthropological, critical. The translation into political science would be a political theories imagination, it consist,, among over things like a: historicity of political phenomena, antisubstansialism, research self-awareness. Definition of political theories imagination I propose in the context of Wiktor Marzec's paper Rebelion and Reaction, which is a study from field of historical sociology, it's in itself a lot of inspiration for theorists of politics: research, theoretical and methodological. It is worth considering -in this context- fundamental categories of political science, like political subjectivity and the political, also revalidate in their range.