Making Capitalism without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe - Hardcover

Eyal, Gil; Szelenyi, Ivan; Townsley, Eleanor

 
9781859848197: Making Capitalism without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1859848192 ISBN 13: 9781859848197
Verlag: Verso Books, 1999

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Making Capitalism without Capitalists guides us towards a deeper understanding of the origins of modern capitalism. Classical social theory in its search for the genesis of capitalism explored the process of transition from feudalism to capitalism. Making Capitalism without Capitalists focuses instead on the transition from socialism to capitalism, where capitalism is made without a capitalist class. Making Capitalism without Capitalists reflects on the sociological characteristics of the Communist system breakdown in 1989 and offers a theory of social structure of post-Communist societies. 1989 is seen as a successful revolution led by the former technocratic fraction of the old Communist ruling estate against the bureaucracy. In order to secure its victory, however, the technocracy had to make substantial concessions to the former dissident intelligentsia. The irony of the post-Communist way to capitalism is that these most unlikely actors see 'building capitalism' as their historic task. By identifying some unique features of capitalism built on the ruins of socialism, Making Capitalism without Capitalists contributes to a deeper appreciation of the diversity of capitalism today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gil Eyal is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Ivan Szelenyi is Professor of Sociology at UCLA.

Eleanor Townsley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1859848192
ISBN 13 
9781859848197
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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