Экономика солидарности в Центральной и Восточной Европе

The paper examines the 'solidarity economy' in Central and Eastern Europe, arguing that while the region has a deep tradition of informal mutual aid and survival networks, these practices often inadvertently subsidize capitalist accumulation by covering reproduction costs that capital does not pay. It contrasts the 'new' solidarity movements in Western Europe and North America with the 'traditional' survival strategies of the semi-periphery, suggesting that for a genuine solidarity economy to emerge, these existing practices must be transformed from extractive to generative purposes.

• In Central and Eastern Europe, strategies based on informal solutions and mutual aid are not new phenomena resulting from the 2008 crisis, but are long-standing local traditions used for survival during frequent crises and property deprivation.
• Global capitalist accumulation relies on the fact that capital does not pay the full cost of labor reproduction; therefore, people in peripheral regions must create alternative sources of livelihood to provide an 'upward subsidy' for capital costs.
• The socialist era in Central and Eastern Europe utilized 'semi-proletarian households' that combined formal wages with subsistence farming and informal income, effectively using rural areas as a reservoir of cheap reproduction for industrial labor.
• The 'second economy' that flourished during the late socialist period was not primarily a market alternative to planning, but a mechanism to cover the costs of the global crisis of the 1970s.
• Post-1990 transition crises destroyed some 'second economy' structures but enabled large-scale informal hierarchies that mirror global integration, ranging from basic survival at the bottom to the localization of transnational companies at the top.
• Existing solidarity practices in the region, such as urban-rural food networks, often support capitalist integration by reducing reproduction costs and relying on the unpaid labor of housewives.
• Informal mutual aid networks can stabilize capital extraction, such as when households share the burden of paying off mortgage debts to prevent bankruptcy.
• Informal exchanges and household structures in the region are often hierarchical, characterized by patriarchal gender roles and repressive labor conditions.

APA

Бирталан, Г., Гадьи, А., & Псфаи, Ж. (2021). Экономика солидарности в Центральной и Восточной Европе. Green European Journal. https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/b-18-ru-needs-title-translating-as-not-in-sharepoint-docu/

Chicago

Бирталан, Герго, Агнес Гадьи, and Жужанна Псфаи. Экономика солидарности в Центральной и Восточной Европе. Green European Journal, 2021. https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/b-18-ru-needs-title-translating-as-not-in-sharepoint-docu/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{2021, author = {Бирталан, Герго and Гадьи, Агнес and Псфаи, Жужанна}, title = {{Экономика солидарности в Центральной и Восточной Европе}}, institution = {Green European Journal}, year = {2021}, month = aug, url = {https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/b-18-ru-needs-title-translating-as-not-in-sharepoint-docu/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }