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When Socialism collapsed, then, the ideologues of 'civil society' and monetarism were confronted with fundamentally new tak. They did what 'trajectory adjustment' would lead us to expect: they took their old ideas and used them to make sense of the new realities, modifying those ideas a great deal in the process.
— May 17, 2018 12:26AM
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Adrian Buck
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It is ironic that after the fall of state socialism, the anti-state post-communist government bureaucracy continues to grow, often in the shape of 'privatisation' bureaucracies - cf. Bokros
— Jul 31, 2018 12:09PM
Adrian Buck
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"[The new bourgeoisie] are about as far as they could be from the ideal Schumpeterian entrepreneur. their main creative activity is to find loopholes, to find patrons or to mobilize clients" - harsh, but fair?
— Jul 31, 2018 12:06PM
Adrian Buck
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in terms of class relations, these are societies with small, weak domestic propertied bourgeoisies but large intelligentsias, which have resisted historical pressures to professionalize - Maybe their big mistake.
— Jul 31, 2018 12:02PM
Adrian Buck
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The historical role of cultural capital is often revolutionary, and it seems unable to institutionalize itself as the dominant logic of a stable system - So much for Plato's philosopher kings.
— Jul 31, 2018 11:58AM
Adrian Buck
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the fact is privatisation produced disinvestment...Some of this could probably be called 'creative destruction' ... Some of this ... however, was simply a siphoning off of resources from large firms, often into private pockets...
— Jul 31, 2018 11:23AM
Adrian Buck
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If the Chinese technocracy did manage to oust the bureaucracy, China might very well adopt the policy of systematic privatisation.
— Jul 31, 2018 11:19AM
Adrian Buck
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It is difficult not to attribute China's extraordinary economic achievement to its strategy of building capitalism from below.
— Jul 31, 2018 11:17AM
Adrian Buck
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But if we are to understand why [socialist managers] opted for capitalism from above, it is impossible from above, it is impossible to separate analytically or empirically their self-interest from their commitment to professional ethics.
— Jul 31, 2018 11:16AM
Adrian Buck
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Civil society was the theory that gradually de-socialized intellectuals from a socialist, communitarian value system and reeducated them in capitalist individualistic virtues.
— Jul 31, 2018 11:11AM
Adrian Buck
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"For all these reasons, we believe that the struggle between the technocratic-managerial elite of the corporate sector and the new entrepreneurs who started from scratch is far from over." - it seems to be now, but the victors were not the technocrats, but the Fideszniks.
— Jul 31, 2018 11:09AM
