The strike at Resita shows that property in Romania is an asset forever unstable and negotiable, "contractual" reasons being anytime available to put it into question. "Down the American!". This was the slogan the employees of the Metallurgical Conglomerate Resita, a conglomerate privatized in June 2000, were shouting on Thursday and Wednesday to the American company Nobles Ventures. The "American's" fault is being late with the salary payment. After the American gets "down" enough, the trade-union members would also like that APAPS, i.e. the Romanian State, appoint a managerial team, without the participation of the current leadership, that be under the control of the Authority for Privatization and the American investor come back in the company only when he could make the proof of a serious contribution of capital in the conglomerate, probably sums for the salaries. In other words, the trade-union members would want the state to somehow deviously nationalize the conglomerate, and then ensure their survival. The "crisis" at Resita rises a series of fundamental problems for the chances to continue the reform in the Romanian economy, and the fact that it takes place at the beginning of the mandate of the government PDSR, so in a period of maximal social legitimacy for it, is a seriously aggravating factor. First of all, we deal here with the existence of a social environment hostile to privatization and market economy. Secondly, it is proved that the privatization made with an important number of socially and economically conditioning elements is damaging and ineffective. Thirdly, we assisted to a deep vitiation of the attributes of property, without categorical answers from the government. As for the social environment hostile to privatization, PDSR picks up now what it seeded before the electoral campaign in 2000. Without ever being explicitly against the idea of pr