POLITICAL CONDITIONS AND DOCTRINAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE TRANSFORMATION IN POLAND IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES (Warunki ustrojowe i podstawy doktrynalne transformacji w Polsce na tle innych krajów postkomunistycznych)

• Authors: Guzek Marian
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article presents a diagnostic assessment of the political and economic system transformation process in Poland. The author expresses an opinion that Solidarity as a mass social and political organization played a significant role only in the destruction of communism but not in the creation of a new political system. Its main leader, Lech Walesa, did not allow it to do so. And it was substituted in that role by the conservative - formerly communist - power after it had eliminated the orthodox communists' fraction. In co-operation with the Democratic Union and later the Union of Freedom, and Lech Walesa himself, it substantially contributed to the creation of a new post-communist system. In such conditions the economic system could not be formed following the model of fair capitalism but political capitalism based on the principles of pseudo-liberal ideology and propaganda and a contemptuous treatment of the academic science of liberal-market economics. The article also presents two forecast scenarios of future changes of the political system.

Keywords

EN

ECONOMIC SYSTEM; ECONOMIC SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES

Discipline

• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Lazarski University, Warsaw; www.lazarski.pl
• Journal: Myśl Ekonomiczna i Polityczna (Political and Economic Though) - until 2010 Mysl Ekonomiczna i Prawna (Legal and Economic Thought)
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 1(28)
• Pages: 77-92
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Guzek Marian

• Marian Guzek, Szkola Glówna Handlowa w Warszawie, al. Niepodleglosci 162, 02-554 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08724