Open AccessThirty Years After: Every Collapse Has Its Inner Logic
Author(s) -
Artémy Magun,
Timothy Garton Ash,
Andrey Teslya,
Thomas Bagger,
Philip Zelikow,
Michael Mann,
Hanns W. Maull
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
russia in global affairs/rossiâ v globalʹnoj politike
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.178
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1810-6439
pISSN - 1810-6374
DOI - 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-4-184-196
Subject(s) - capitalism , socialism , intelligentsia , ideology , iron curtain , state socialism , political economy , cold war , political science , economic history , communism , market economy , sociology , law , economics , politics
Capitalism and socialism, opposed to each other in the Cold War, began to gradually exchange their features: in the West, capitalism started incorporating socialist institutions of welfare state, and the soft version of socialism became an ideology of intellectuals. At the same time, in the East, socialism could not resist consumer culture, while intellectuals had switched to either conservative or purely liberal positions, both being sharply critical of the left. This game of two mirrors gradually became obvious and produced a large-scale neoliberal anti-socialist wave that started in the United States and then splashed over the Iron Curtain. It crushed everything behind that curtain, making it possible to build, to the applause of the intelligentsia, new cartoonish capitalism on the remains of the socialist scaffolding.