On the Maturation of Socialism

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The Polish events of 1980 took everyone by surprise. Not the least surprised were the main actors of the events. But equally baffled and lost seemed those whose life business is to enlighten the ignorant and to guide the perplexed: the professional students of Eastern Europe and experts on history, politics and sociology of communism. The published commentaries have been remarkable either for their timidity, or for the speed with which the developing situation made them obsolete. Most of them were, first and foremost, strikingly irrelevant to the magnitude of new experience they tried to make meaningful. And yet, before blaming the experts for being caught unawares, let us admit that their plight was indeed unenviable.

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