Post-communism, liberalism and solidarity in the countries of central and eastern Europe after 1989

Andrzej Kobyliński

doi:10.21852/sem.2018.4.09

Published: 2022-10-28

Vol. 39 No. 4 (2018)

Post-communism, liberalism and solidarity in the countries of central and eastern Europe after 1989

Andrzej Kobyliński

Seminare. Learned Investigations

Section: Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2018.4.09

Abstract

The main aim of this article is to analyze the transition from communism to post-communism in Eastern Bloc countries after 1989. Post-communism in Central and Eastern Europe gradually transformed into various forms of democracy. The political project implemented in post-communist societies is a selective kind of liberalism, which entailed a number of negative consequences. Unfortunately, in the process of transition from post-communism to liberal democracy, a very small role was played by the category of solidarity as an important virtue of social life. We need today a global expansion of solidarity as a new worldwide ethos.

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post-communism, communism, liberalism, solidarity, ethics of solidarity, human rights, homo sovieticus, ethics of post-communism

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Kobyliński , A. (2022). Post-communism, liberalism and solidarity in the countries of central and eastern Europe after 1989 . Seminare. Learned Investigations, 39(4), 105–115. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2018.4.09

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