ABSTRACT
Writing as a participant in the dissident movements of the late 1980s in her native Bulgaria, Albena Azmanova reflects on the ambitions of their emancipatory project and argues for the relevance of the period’s insights for contemporary struggles against autocracy and neoliberalism in Europe and beyond. She examines the collapse of state socialism, the rise of neoliberal capitalism and the growing precarity across Europe, to articulate a transformative path consistent with Václav Havel’s criticism of both capitalism and socialism.
