Career
Balicki was born into a noble Polish szlachta family of Seweryn and Karolina née Pruszyńska in Lublin under the Russian Partition. He studied social sciences at universities in Saint St. Petersburg, Zürich and Geneva. He held a doctorate from the University of Geneva.
His book Egoizm narodowy wobec etyki (National Egoism and Ethics) published first in 1903 was one of the central texts of nascent National Democratic movement.
Balicki argued that the individual should fuse spiritually with his society and adopt its desires and goals as his own. He rejected altruism, ideals and ethics of the romantic literature as "abstract" and "naive".
Together with Roman Dmowski he founded National League and National-Democratic Party.