Post-communist opening allowed market forces to consume both private and public political space

Evidence

Wilpert says that ctizens in the former East Germany no longer assume that the private sphere is the realm of freedom in which all ideas are ripe for discussion, and so, this ”private—public” is withering. At the same time, no equally vibrant public sphere is developing to replace the once vibrant kitchen table talk. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1957

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of ‘political evaporation’ and quasi-public private speech central to this book; also echoes Hirschman’s exit/voice discussion in the same chapter. — connects to: Forced marketization reanimates ethnic and religious nationalism in post-Soviet societies. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 316; World War I dissolved the public-private boundary that protected capitalist property — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 112
• SEED: Angle for an essay: how newly democratic societies can lose political speech to consumerism instead of gaining a public sphere.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1957

Broader Connections

• Forced marketization reanimates ethnic and religious nationalism in post-Soviet societies. #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 316
• World War I dissolved the public-private boundary that protected capitalist property #complicates (0.78) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 112