Thursday, 11 April 2024

Grzegorz Konat: The Polish Transformation. Tadeusz Kowalik on the Epigonic Bourgeois Revolution of 1989.

 Grzegorz Konat: The Polish Transformation. Tadeusz Kowalik on the Epigonic Bourgeois Revolution of 1989. Amsterdam: Brill 2024. ISBN: 978-90-04-69424-8


The book takes an in-depth look at a hitherto unexplored part of the oeuvre of prominent Polish economist and historian of economic thought Tadeusz Kowalik: his thesis that the systemic transformation that took place in Poland in the late 1980s was a de facto "epigonic bourgeois revolution". Since Kowalik actually never extended his argument to support this thesis, the aim of the book is to answer the following question: If some important reflections on the revolutionary character of the Polish transformation scattered throughout Kowalik's works were to be found, would they together constitute a convincing justification for the thesis of the "epigonic bourgeois revolution"?

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