Yesterday, I read a fascinating article by Liviu Chelcea and Oana Druta in the Eurasian Geography and Economics from 2016. In this article, the authors argue that East European elites deploy a type of “zombie socialism” to prevent popular resistance to the violence and misery of contemporary klepto-capitalism, something that I have also found in my own work, and especially in reactions to my own work.  They write:

The obsessive references to the socialist past have...