Abstrakt
The chapter analyses the dynamics of value conflicts in Poland. The chapter traces the roots of Polish reservations owards Western liberalism on moral issues in the 1980s and 1990s.
While this distance transformed the most critical political cleavage in the 2000s and 2010s and temporarily marginalized the Left, a full-blown culture war on all three fronts of memory, identity and morality also had paradoxical effects. The Roman Catholic Church, openly siding with one side on some of these value conflicts, could, as a result, lose its important position within the Polish national identity.