Solidarity’s members did not decide that their vision for a cooperatively run economy was wrongheaded, but their leaders became convinced that all that mattered was winning relief from the Communist debts and immediately stabilizing the currency. As Henryk Wujec, one of Poland’s leading advocates of cooperatives, put it at the time, “If we had enough time, we might even be able to pull it off. But we don’t have time.”28 Sachs, meanwhile, could deliver the money.
