Dreptul neoliberal românesc; între mituri fundaţionale şi realitatea precarităţii proprietăţii individuale în blocurile de locuinţe (Partea a II-a)*

* Prima parte a articolului a fost publicată în Pandectele române nr. 2/2024.

Liviu DAMŞA

ABSTRACT

In this article, based on an examination of Romanian neoliberal reforms on ‘housing’, I debunk several posts 1989 myths related to private, individual property. In the senses famously articulated by David Harvey, I argue that the post 1989 Romanian radical neoliberal project in law (and economy) is at once a political practice and a utopia. At the utopian level, this project creates a fictional socialist era legal reality that it purports to change. At the political practices level, it incessantly recombines legal institutions and practices inherited from socialism, all the while vocally denouncing them. From an economic perspective, this project is both an utopia, where people are purposefully allowed to have less and less while expecting them...