BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN JAWS OF SEMI-PERIPHERAL CAPITALISM, NEO-FASCISM AND CRIMINAL POLITICS OF IDENTITY Cover Image

Bosna i Hercegovina u raljama semi-perifernog kapitalizma, neofašizma i zločinačkih politika identiteta
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN JAWS OF SEMI-PERIPHERAL CAPITALISM, NEO-FASCISM AND CRIMINAL POLITICS OF IDENTITY

Author(s): Zlatan Delić
Subject(s): Nationalism Studies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Bošnjačka zajednica kulture "Preporod"
Keywords: The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; neo-fascism; predator politics of identity; Balkan post-modern; epistemological recovery; moral recovery; perverted cultures of memories;

Summary/Abstract: The central hypothesis of this paper is that Bosnia and Herzegovina, the central republic of former Yugoslavia, twenty years after the genocide against Bosniaks, is found in predator jaws of semi-peripheral capitalism, neo-fascism, and well synchronized criminal politics of identity. It is all about public and secret politics. These politics draw their negative energies from revisionism, anti-fascism, grey zones of transitional “concordatory” economics and media senselessness or neutralization of the concept of “organized crime”. The politics of concatenation judicial scandals followed by a continuing media mindlessness of a very illiterate and cheer minded public, represent a dark place of legal, political, and economic transition. It is not simple to find polite and peaceful way out of such situation. A lot that has been “taking place” during the twenty-year transition in grey zones of politics, economics and security, does not provide a reason for optimism. There is a great deal of relevant and objectively confidential proof for such constatation, and it is not even advisable to mention some of it. A number of more or less intelligent regional debates justify this during discussions about actual range of the Huntington’s pamphlet of ideas from 1993 about the alleged conflict between civilizations. Significant parts of Bosnian and Herzegovinian socio-economic, socio-political, psycho-political, semiotic, iconic, psycho-pathological, media and barbaric environment – may be analyzed and described as a dangerous mix of pre-modern and post-modern forms of neo-fascism and fundamentalism. It is about destructive, self-destructive and parallel politics of identity, as a completely perverted cultures of memories that spin in a vicious circle of expert dissemination of ignorance, intelligence of evil, violence, fear, awareness of the cheer minded, escapism and primitivism.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 178-196
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian