From Solidarity to Sellout by Kowalik Tadeusz & Lewandowska Eliza

Author:Kowalik, Tadeusz & Lewandowska, Eliza [Kowalik, Tadeusz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2012-06-30T23:00:00+00:00

The reverse side of this coin was much worse, not to say astonishingly naïve. To recall, Kuroń (the government) imagined that these strategic decisions would be taken within three months! Even after this period was extended, following negotiations, to six months, and taking into account that the whole operation was to encompass as many as 6,000 to 6,500 enterprises, the whole idea bordered on sheer fantasy. The line of thinking: bad officials, good workers, and managing staff contrasted with the then visible unethical conduct (of not only the managing staff) that was so common during this unprecedented deep collapse. Oversight of the privatization process became a necessity.

Remembering Kuroń’s acceptance of the “jump” into the market in the way proposed by Jeffrey Sachs, the pact could be evaluated as follows: with no prospects for a privatization leap to be performed by the government and administration, let us try to do this together with the people. In other words, Kuroń still did not relinquish the philosophy of jumping into the new system “at one go.” He did not understand that the bigger the concentration of changes within a short time, the greater the corruption. It is sad to write this, because at the end of 1993 he returned to his leftist views, and in 1994 he presented a very fundamental critique of the effected transformation.10

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