Dilemas of Traditional Dialectical Dichotomy of Political Parties to the Left and the Right in Contemporary Society Cover Image

Дилеме традиционалне дијалектичке дихотомије политичких партија на левицу и десницу у савременом друштву
Dilemas of Traditional Dialectical Dichotomy of Political Parties to the Left and the Right in Contemporary Society

Author(s): Uroš V. Šuvaković
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, Politics and society, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Институт за политичке студије
Keywords: dialectic dichotomy; classification; political parties; the party left; the party right;

Summary/Abstract: The reasons for impossibility of continuance of the traditional dialectic dichotomy of political parties to the left and the right in contemporary society and the necessity of its overgrowing to classification are methodologically discussed here. Temporal and geographical character is pointed out of the ideas of the party left and the party right. It is also pointed out that in the case of classification also, regardless the number of members, the principle of consistency is disturbed, since the dividing criterion has been changed during the history, but also the criteria of completeness, exhaustiness, reciprocal exclusion of groups at the same level and enough capability for discrimination, which all must be fulfilled with methodologically correctly implemented classifications. In the 21st century it is necessary perform again recognition of political ideas and practical operation of political parties and name them by the name that really expresses their substantive features.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 29-52
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Serbian