It is a banal historical truth that the working class played a crucial role in the bourgeois revolutions of continental Europe. Oskar Lange’s comments on the subject are especially perceptive: After the war, when the remnants of the ancien regime …
Poland has once again become a very interesting country. The Polish elections were overshadowed by events in Russia, but despite all the differences, recent developments in the two countries should be seen as part of the same trend. All this …
During the last three years, the ruling elites in the countries of Eastern Europe, especially Poland, have clearly aimed to limit or even liquidate entirely the welfare state. They have introduced various forms of commercialization and privatization into the sphere …
At the beginning of 1990, the ideology of laissez-faire had made a triumphal return to the Polish political scene, and nothing appeared likely to disturb the self-assurance of the neoliberals. By now, however, there are increasing signs of disarray, crisis, …
Oscar Lange is known in the West, above all, as the author of the classical and widely criticized model of markt socialism. An enormous amount has been written about this model, some of it developing Lange’s idea and much of …
