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ratchet effect
Does Capitalism Have a Future?

This proved to be what is called the "ratchet effect" in the historical tendencies of the growing state functions in modern society.

—p.172 Getting Real (163) by Craig J. Calhoun, Georgi Derluguian, Immanuel Wallerstein, Michael Mann, Randall Collins
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Pyrrhic victory

The dissident New Left had its Pyrrhic victory in the extinction of communism.

—p.168 Getting Real (163) by Craig J. Calhoun, Georgi Derluguian, Immanuel Wallerstein, Michael Mann, Randall Collins
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establishmentarian

establishmentarian politics of muddling through

—p.168 Getting Real (163) by Craig J. Calhoun, Georgi Derluguian, Immanuel Wallerstein, Michael Mann, Randall Collins
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apparatchiks

communist apparatchiks

—p.167 Getting Real (163) by Craig J. Calhoun, Georgi Derluguian, Immanuel Wallerstein, Michael Mann, Randall Collins
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subproletarians

the non-Russians and subproletarians in the Soviet republic

—p.166 Getting Real (163) by Craig J. Calhoun, Georgi Derluguian, Immanuel Wallerstein, Michael Mann, Randall Collins
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