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Impoverished, indebted, and underdeveloped at the close of World
War II, Romania underwent dramatic changes as part of its
transition to a centrally planned economy. As with the Soviet
experience, it pursued a policy of "primitive socialist
accumulation" whereby the state appropriated agricultural surplus
and restricted workers' consumption in support of industrial
growth. Focusing on the daily operations of planning in the
ethnically mixed city of Cluj from 1945 to 1955, this book argues
that socialist accumulation was deeply contradictory: it not only
inherited some of the classical tensions of capital accumulation,
but also generated its own, which derived from the multivocal
nature of the state socialist worker as a creator of value, as
living labour, and as a subject of emancipatory politics.
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