Тирания, идеология и конституирането на социалистическите субекти
Tyranny, Ideology, and the Constitution of Socialist Subjects

Summary/Abstract: The paper tries to answer a question recently raised by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Michael Gayer, who controls the acts of government in state socialist societies. In order to make the question answerable, I will describe an ordinary act of government in a primary party organization of the Bulgarian communist party – the dismissal of the cultural editor of a Bulgarian satirical newspaper. I will claim that the dominant paradigms in present-day socialism studies stemming from totalitarianism and revisionism are unable to provide an adequate account of this act of party governance, and that it is better explainable by an alternative approach which conceives the authority of the Communist party as a capital allowing the tactical legitimation of situated, heterogeneous and often irreconcilable agencies.

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