Promene, krize i rat
Changes, crises and war

Author(s): Rastko Močnik
Subject(s): Economic history, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: varieties of post-socialism; comprador bureaucracy; restoration of capitalism; authoritarian statism
Summary/Abstract: The contribution presents the complex dynamics of the long-term crisis of the capitalist world-system, and points to its class-determined nature. Within the global frame, it specifically examines the diverging developments in post-socialist societies, and shows how they depend upon the outcome of tensions between the two main factions within the ruling groups – the political bureaucracy and the local capital-management alliance. The text proposes establishment of a new field of research – the varieties of post-socialism. It notes the exceptionality of the Chinese way, and assesses the prevailing influence of comprador bureaucracy in most other countries, with the rare exception of local, mostly rentier capital taking the lead. The contribution ends with a brief examination of the possibility of systemic change, and a possible role of social theory in this process.

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