Seeing Like a Market: to the Question of the Ethical Assessment of the Privatization of East German Companies in 1990–1994

The article deals with the problem  of ethical assessment of the liquidation of the GDR as a state structure  and its integration into the political and economic  space of the FRG. According to a number  of historical and sociological sources,  “reunification” was not the reason  for the search  and finding of a common  language  between  West and East Germans,  but, on  the contrary, the reasons for discord and deep  mutual distrust and rejection.  On this basis, the work analyzes the  views of both  sides,  and also conducts  a philosophical  reflection  on the value bases  (ethical axioms) of the key evaluative positions  of both East and West Germans regarding  the  actions  of  the  West  German  government,  the  conditions  for  concluding  a monetary  union of the  two Germanys,  as well as in relation  to privatizations East German companies.

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