The Challenges of Liberal Democracy: a study of the reconversion of Romanian communist elites in transition to democracy
The Challenges of Liberal Democracy: a study of the reconversion of Romanian communist elites in transition to democracy

Summary/Abstract: Democracy as a form of government enjoys unprecedented, near-universal legitimacy in the world today. Contrary to some recent views which followed the social and political turmoil of 2011/2 professing the new global proletariat and the class struggle of the “99% against the 1%”, it is irresponsible to divert our trust from the superiority of liberal democracy. The movements of 2011 must be understood as a further step in the universal consolidation of the legitimacy of liberal democracy and not as protest against it. The moral responsibility of researchers in post-communist countries is to worn against all extremists and apocalyptic views on the fall of capitalism, of the advanced democracies, of the Western banks and the EU and revival of the “class struggle” rhetoric.

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