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Andrzej Walicki makes a descriptive analysis of the resurgence of the ideas of classic liberalism during the eighties in Poland and their dissemination and gravitation both in government as well as opposition circles.
According to the author, towards 1997, the general opinion in Poland would have undergone a significant about-face: the focus of attention had moved from politics to economics and the debate centered rather on the political feasibility of the foreseen economic reforms. Moreover, the political radicalism tended to be replaced by realism and pragmatism.
This change would have been largely due to a new diagnosis of the national reality arising from Hayekian interpretations of that reality put forth by liberals such as Lagowski and Dzielski. According to those views, the revolutionary and destructive anticommunism of the old opposition had to be substituted by a creative anticommunism that distinguishes between authorities and system; the voluntarist collectivism so diffuse in Polish society had to be vigorously impugned.
Without a doubt, the intellectual and political climate described by Walick accounts for the events occurring in Poland lately that are narrated after this article by Jacek Korpala and Jacek Chwedoruk.