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Béla Greskovits, « Les analyses concurrentes de la société de marché postcommuniste. Retour sur le passé d'une controverse », Revue française de science politique, ID : 10.3406/rfsp.2000.395504
Rival views of post-communist market society. the path dependence of transitology By reviewing the debate on the political consequences of capitalist expansion and the impact of the communist legacy on the emerging East European market societies, the author demonstrates that the manner social scientists think about post-communism has much in common with the ideas of their predecessors who faced the emergence of capitalism over the past centuries. Neither the specific historical nor the systemic context of capitalist expansion can fully account for the continuity of the major views and their conflict. Rather rivalry is the standard way social scientists think about systems and systemic change in general. However, the trench-war between rival views of post-communist market society also reflects the impact of new psychological, political, and institutional factors specific to the mass-production of social science ideas towards the end of the 20th century.