The way in which the Nastase government is going to realize the SIDEX privatization represents a strategical choice which can indicate the model of a certain society. The economic objectives of the privatization of a state-owned company can be divided into three important categories: access to the market, money and good administration. Let's analyze them successively. First of all, the new owner of the company should have the force to impose it on the international market. This is why a company which is present at a global level is preferable to one which can cover only a national or regional area. An important transnational company has the possibility of absorbing the shocks which appear in another part of the world; if the demand diminishes in Latin America, they sell in China or India. A local producer does not run the risk of sinking if he is a part of such a global network. Secondly, the new owner should have an impressive financial force, both for providing the aggregate works with a new technology and for being able to cope with the cyclical crises affecting demand on the international market. Thirdly, the new main share-holder should do what the state can not do, i.e. administer the aggregate works in an efficient way, eliminate waste and masked unemployment and increase productivity. When we speak about SIDEX Galati, these objectives become partly synonymous with the designs of the economic reform in general. However, if we perceive the SIDEX privatization as a business having strict economic implications we run the risk of minimizing this problem. The way in which the Nastase government is going to realize the SIDEX privatization represents a strategical choice which can indicate the model of a certain society. According to this choice, we shall head for an open, pluralist society, or a society characterized by an endemic poverty, ruled by an implacable oli