State Capitalism, State Socialism and the Politicization of Workers

Abstract

Politicization implies a change in individual roles fran parochial or subject to autoncnous participants in political life. The highest levels of politicization imply a fundamental transformation in the way citizens relate to government; with citizens becaning aggressive fonnulators of the agenda for public discussion and active participants in holding public officials to account. A high level of politicization could transfonn or threaten to transfonn any given political system.