What Happened to Poland's Red Capitalists?
Category: WORLDPOST
In Poland in the late 1980s, Polish sociologist Jadwiga Staniszkis began writing about "political capitalists." These were colloquially known as "red capitalists" -- technocrats and enterprise managers who were technically part of the Communist system but had already begun to function like capitalists.
By John Feffer, ContributorDirector, Foreign Policy In Focus and Editor, LobeLog; Author ..., 2015-01-11