Poglądy opozycji politycznej w Polsce w latach osiemdziesiątych XX wieku dotyczące tworzenia partii politycznych

Abstract

The article presents views and opinions of the political opposition in Poland relating to the necessity and rationality of forming political parties, from the proclamation of martial law untill the negotiations at the ‘round table’ - at the time when there were no restrictions in common thinking in the solidarity movement. We can mark out two conceptions in the matter of forming and operating of political parties. According to the first conception, which includes the possibility of forming a ’’Polish underground nation”, parties could be a part of an alternative political system, whose existence should lead to changes in political system. Second conception says that there is a necessity for political parties conjunct with the need to create and propagate political programs inter alia to prepare social awareness to form a democracy. Some people at that time had not seen a need or even or even capabilities that would be appropriate for the operation of political parties. They even used to talk about mischievousness of this kind of structures (e.g. qua spoiling the unity of people or unrequired waste of activists energy). There also existed point of view denying the sense of political parties at all or demanding at least circumscription of their influence in the process of electing of state authorities and governing the country.