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Jan Sowa

Jan Sowa is a Polish sociologist, dealing mainly with critical social theory. His latest book, Another Commonwealth is possible (Inna Rzeczpospolita jest możliwa), revisits the Solidarity movement as a founding myth of post-socialist Poland. Sowa argues that Solidarity's social justice agenda was intentionally left aside by democratic Poland's founding fathers, to destructive consequences, and that reviving it is beneficial and possible.

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