The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’: New Left Perspectives from the Region

0556986 - FLÚ 2023 RIV CH eng M - Monography Chapter
Feinberg, Joseph Grim
Post-dissent and the New Right: Problems and Potential of post-Communist Dissent in Slovakia and Beyond.
The Political Economy of Eastern Europe 30 years into the ‘Transition’: New Left Perspectives from the Region. Cham: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2022 - (Gagyi, A.; Slačálek, O.), s. 151-167. International Political Economy Series. ISBN 978-3-030-78914-5
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTC18040
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Postocialism * dissidents * post-dissent * Slovakia
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78915-2_9

This book chapter examines the so-called transition to capitalism and liberal democracy that took place in Slovakia after the end of Communist Party rule in 1989. The author combines a critical approach to the history of political discourse with a political economic analysis of competing approaches to capital accumulation associated with competing discursive tendencies. The author focuses, then, on what he calls “post-dissent”, the liberal and conservative political approach that has invoked the dissident legacy to legitimate the post-Communist order, while blaming the problems of the new era on the legacy of a Communist era that is by now long past. As a result, post-dissident discourse has failed to present a popular alternative to the current state of affairs.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0331572