THE ROAD TO FREEDOM: CAN COMMUNIST SOCIETIES EVOLVE INTO DEMOCRACY
In: World affairs: a journal of ideas and debate, Band 150, Heft 3, S. 183-189
ISSN: 0043-8200
THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO COUNTRY COMBINING A PUBLICY OWNED, PLANNED ECONOMY WITH A DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. STATE OWNED AND PLANNED ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEMS SEEM TO BE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. NOT ONLY IS THIS EMPIRICALLY TRUE, BUT THERE IS CONSIDERABLE THEORETICAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS CONCLUSION.