Noul capitalism românesc

Abstract

In December 1989, for a plurality of reasons and in a special international conjuncture, Romanians overthrew the communist party from power, putting an end not only to an authoritarian political system, but also to the history of a form of social and economic organization, the communist one. Despite the fact that the Romanian revolution of 1989 was broadcast live on international television during the Christmas holidays, and enjoyed special attention from world public opinion, it was chronologically only one of the last such events to mark the end of political and socio-economic communism in Eastern Europe. 1989 can be considered the year of the victory of developed capitalism in Western Europe and North America in the "cold war" that lasted for almost half a century after the end of the Second World War. The confrontation between the Western world and the "socialist camp", which had been seeking an alternative civilization to capitalist civilization, ended with the political, economic and ideological-cultural victory of the West. The most important effect of this victory was the reorientation of the new, former communist societies towards a reconstruction of their own civilization. Recognizing not only their defeat, predominantly non-military, but also their inferiority to Western civilization, societies that had striven to build a communist civilization for over 7 decades in the case of Russia and over four decades in the case of its European satellites, made a huge turning point in their own history, opting politically for a complete social, economic and political reconstruction, that is, for the adoption of Western civilization.