ABSTRACT
Dialogue is considered to be a hard core of any democratic society. However, dialogue seems so obvious that the theoreticians of democracy hardly paid attention to its features. Even if they try to do so they focus on the political, institutionalized dialogue, neglecting almost entirely everyday dialogue. In my chapter I intend to argue that there is a continuation between everyday dialogue and political dialogue and that their relationships have a great potential for social critique and emancipation. The quality of everyday dialogue decides to a great extent the quality of political dialogue and I will show the conditions that determine the transformation of ordinary interactions in given society into political exchanges. For sure, one of these conditions is social memory, which lays the foundation for the shape and content of social exchanges. As an empirical example I use the political transformation in Poland after 1989. I show how the changes in everyday interactions affected political, institutionalized relations.
