Word: polityka
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...plan in fear that the economy is moving out of their grasp. But most Poles remain hopeful. Some even believe that the plan could have important political consequences. "Certainly you cannot have economic reforms without some political reforms," says Mieczyslaw Rakowski, 44, editor in chief of the authoritative weekly Polityka. Rakowski, a candidate member of the Central Committee and a protégé of Gomulka, believes that Poland is ready to enter into a stage of "limited democracy." He explains: "By limited democracy I mean more room for discussion within the Communist Party, perhaps even two Communist parties, each...
...Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar, the man behind much of the anti-Gomulka dissidence but normally a shadowy figure, appeared three times in the past two weeks on Polish television, then held an even rarer press interview to attack the moral support given to student rioters in the weekly newspaper Polityka-a publication closely identified with Gomulka...
...reply about the prospects of future development" in dealing with "incompetent, discredited people carrying on intrigues at their places of work." Trybuna Ludu criticized the Gomulka regime for being too much influenced by "revisionist" economists, denounced the type of market economy now being introduced in other Socialist countries. And Polityka, a magazine with a large readership among young party members, bemoaned the considerable age gap between leading party officials, many of whom are in their sixties, and the rest of the country-40% of whose people have not yet reached their 19th birthday...
...Communist intellectuals, much of what Kolakowski has to say has been said before, often with less obscurantism. But in today's Poland it is new, fresh and almost suicidal in its audacity. Even in trying to answer him, Gomulka's Polityka fell into admission of the threat he poses to the Communist hierarchy: "Kolakowski and the enragés are not able to present any program of a 'moral' policy which would not lead at once to a national catastrophe and to the annihilation of Socialism." Kolakowski's supporters heard that he will be barred...