Nikola Stojanović - Prilog kritičkoj historiji socijalne i političke misli u Bosni i Hercegovini
Nikola Stojanović: Contribution to a critical history of social and political thought in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: In the critical, but not indifferent or idolatrous, interpretation of the history of social and political thought in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the published work of Nikola Stojanović is characteristic for having formed, in the paradigmatic sense, the ideology and politics of Serbian nationalism in the early twentieth century during the period of Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia. Th is manifests itself in his denial of the national individuality of the Croats and in trivial elements of antisemitism. It is also expressed in the negation of the Bosniac national individuality and in a pan-Serbian perception of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an ethnically Serb country. At the same time, it also demonstrates the internal ideological components of Serbian nationalism, such as territorial hegemonism, ethnic pan-Serbism, national narcissism, Serbian messianism, and so on. Although it does also express some features of liberal values, these are no more than rhetorical, given that they are wholly inconsistent with his nationalism, based as it is on racist theories and biologistic, socio-Darwinist discourse. Any critical reconstruction of the history of doctrinal nationalism in this region must therefore take seriously into consideration the political thought of Nikola Stojanović, who ended his political career – a fact more or less unknown to the public here – as the ideologue of the chetnik-fascist movement of Draža Mihailović.

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