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I Want 'Rotten Bourgeois Democracy'!": An Interview With Rumanian Dissident Paul Goma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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GOMA: I think only about existing conditions, because under the existing circumstances thinking about a future ideal seems like thinking about a Utopian fantasy. I concentrate on thinking about improving the present condition of life in Rumania. If I were free to think about my ideal of government, it would be a "rotten bourgeois democracy." Make sure you put those last three words in quotation marks, because I am quoting the Rumanian Government's words.

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1979

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