O PROBLEMATICI POLITIČKE ARTIKULACIJE DRUŠTVENIH POKRETA I PARTIJA U KONTEKSTU SAVREMENOG STUDENTSKOG POKRETA U SRBIJI
ON THE PROBLEMATIC OF THE POLITICAL ARTICULATION BETWEEN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PARTIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONTEMPORARY STUDENT MOVEMENT IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: The text seeks to situate the contradictions and dilemmas currently facing the student movement in Serbia within world-system processes of longer duration. It therefore begins with debates on the left that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, focusing on the rupture between social movements and leftist political parties, as well as on changes in the regime of capital accumulation on a world scale, that led to the transformation of the Keynesian welfare state into an authoritarian neoliberal state. This new form of the capitalist state is characterized by the narrowing of parliamentary powers, the transformed function of political parties, and the depoliticization of social relations under the dictate of neoliberal technocratic ideologies, accompanied by processes of juridification and culturalization. The text then turns to the specific features that this new form and function of the capitalist state assume on the periphery of the capitalist world-system. Using the example of post-socialist Serbia, the text seeks to demonstrate how shifts in dominant ideological paradigms constitute forms of adaptation by a peripheral state to the dynamics of capital accumulation on a world scale. In conclusion, it returns to the student movement in Serbia and emphasizes the necessity of constructing an autonomous ideology of the movement and addressing the question of dependent development on the periphery, without which fundamental social change is impossible. Inspired by the theory of Nikos Poulantzas, it proposes a strategy of political articulation between processes grounded in direct democracy at the social base and those of representative democracy within the state, with the aim of democratic transformation and overcoming the form and function of the capitalist state.

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