By Teodor Shanin

Explores Marx’s perspective to “developing” societies. comprises translations of Marx’s notes from the Eighties, one of the most crucial unearths of the final century.

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When these parasites won, the outcome was a ´˚ rent-seeking society. (A slund 2002, 217) To sum up, the late-totalitarian elite included all the members of the nomenklatura and their families. Additionally, since so much power in totalitarian societies was vested in the secret police, the elite included officers in the secret police and their families. Managers of large monopolies and their immediate families should also be considered members of the late totalitarian elite because they controlled resources and mobility within their organizations and had access to international markets, even if they were not formal members of the nomenklatura.

In other words, the officers adapted their institutionalized rights to their personal interest in liberation from domination. rights, naked liberties, and liberation I explain and unify the distinct characteristics of post-totalitarianism as manifestations of a process of adjustment of the rights of the late-totalitarian elite to its interests. The standard definition of rights in political philosophy is Hohfeld’s (1964) claim-rights: Rights are rule-governed powers of some people The Adjustment of Elite Rights to Interests 31 to activate duties to act or refrain from acting that others owe them, but cannot extinguish unilaterally.

Ordinary people won the rights to exit the state, to elect their representatives, and to express themselves publicly. They acquired negative liberties to 1 In Putin Restoration Russia, private property rights were rescinded and replaced with privileged negative liberties: the oligarchs could keep their properties for as long as they remained in favor of the government. Privileges could be and were rescinded arbitrarily. Consequently, in a process that resembles chemical osmosis, liquid assets have been moving from states that considered them privileges conditional on the sufferance of the sovereign to states that considered them property rights that conferred on the government the duty of protection.

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