Dobrobyt zamiast walki klas. Wielki Kryzys i wizja socjalizmu w publicystyce Daniela Grossa
Welfare Instead of a Class Struggle. The Great Depression and Vision of Socialism in Daniel Gross’s Works

Summary/Abstract: Great Depression, which unveiled flagrant contradictions and imbalances of the capitalist economy, caused deep transformations in socialist political thought. In the 1930s socialist thinkers and commentators intensively discussed potential forms of the new (and usually post-capitalist) economic regime. In the Polish context, the ideas of Daniel Gross, basically forgotten thinker and senator (1929-1935), seem to be particularly interesting and unusual. The following article is presenting Gross’s notorious inflationary agenda in wider theoretical framework, as a part of the comprehensive plan for economic transformation. Gross believed that the foundation of the future socialist economy laid in general prosperity and high level of popular consumption on the domestic market. In contrast to other socialist authors, he argued that proper monetary policy was much more important than socialization of the means of production. His unorthodox views on the rules of future socialist economy and possible ways of economic transformation were not much popular in Polish Socialist Party in the 1930s, but in fact they were quite close to the economic agenda of the West European Social Democracy in post-war decades (up till 1970s).

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