Social mobility in Poland

What is really going on after the communist times?Is there already an established class in Poland trying to protect its interests?

Hmm... There are no social classes as such, however I'm sure there are some groups of interests that try to establish their position in the country.

The Kaczyński brothers were always after the "układy" (coteries, cliques, informal ties) that had wormed themselve sinto free Poland since 1989, when the ruling ciommies struck a dela with the leftists of the Solidarity movement. Ex-commiers including secret polciemen establioshed niches for thersmelves in the privatisation programmes, on bank and company boards, set up detective and security agencies and made extesnive use of their commie-era contacts. The Gazeta Wyborcza crowd, many of whom had long records of collabroations with the former regime, took a hand washes hand approach and opposed all attempts at de-communisation, vetting and sweeping the regime's hangers-on out. To them, Jaruzelski, who had waged war on his own nation, was a "man of honour" and Kukliński (a Polish army officer who had provided NATO with sensitive Soviet-bloc plans) was dubbed a traitor. Members of such układy don't admit it, nor does that class have any formal name.

A competlely different matter was that the Kaczyńskis' execution of that programme was clumsy and ineffective, eventually resulting in their party being swept form office in snap 2007 elections.

hahaha, there was before 1989, hence Solidarność.

Communism, capitalism, whatever, there is always a pecking order, always some group maintaining the established order over everybody else. It is what happens when you add people to noble concepts and ideas.

[an edit] I would like to add that capitalism is probably a bit more honest about the way things go down. Under that system, you basically have a bunch of rich dudes scheming about how to better their own position motivated by pursuing self-interest. Keeping others down is just a largely unintended bi-product of that pursuit of self-interst. With communism you actually had the established order sitting about plotting to keep the masses down, it was one of their primary aims. :)

peace out

mróz