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The gist of our scheme is that in the systemic revolutions there is no direct road leading from the ‘dismantling’ to the ‘aggregation’ stage. The first process peters out in the quicksands of liminality, in which the more or less stable aggregations have yet to form and from which they must later extricate themselves. The moment society is sunk in the liminal condition; there is no way of predicting the shape of things to come. The forces that authored the dismantling of old societal forms are used up and exhausted; 18 Zygmunt Bauman they meet their demise the moment their task has been accomplished.
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But it was precisely that managerial role, already stretched beyond its capacity, which stood in the way of satisfying the opposition’s demands. The truth of the matter was on occasions seen more clearly by the communist rulers than by their opponents; in their inchoate attempts at ‘reform’ (ceding the task of needs satisfaction to the market), the more far-sighted among the rulers found themselves deserted by the very forces of dissent whose demands the measures were meant to meet. Let us recall that the Jaruzelski/ Rakowski plan of releasing the economy from pernickety governmental control was overwhelmingly rejected in a free referendum.