Komunističko naslijeđe i izgledi ljevice
Communist Legacy and the Prospects of the Left

Summary/Abstract: In this text the author elaborates on two central assumptions. The first assumption (based on the comparative survey results from ten postcommunist countries) is that there is a marked positive correlation between the residue of “communist legacy” in people's minds and the electoral success of leftist parties. Since that legacy in Croatia (and Czech Republic) has been weakest, this is going to be an aggravating circumstance for SDP in their struggle for power. The second assumption is that the politics of leftist parties which could come to power is to shuttle between two extremes: the restoration of realsocialism in a modified form and the social-democratic model of Sweden or at least Germany. According to the author, the key agents of such politics are “neotraditionalism” and “political capitalism”, both inherited from the former system.

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