Liberalism vs. Democracy: Constrainting of Political Democracy – A Step Forward Building a Global Nihilistic Society Cover Image

Либерализам vs демократија: Oграничавање политичке демократије – искорак ка изградњи глобалног нихилистичког друштва
Liberalism vs. Democracy: Constrainting of Political Democracy – A Step Forward Building a Global Nihilistic Society

Author(s): Srđan M. Perišić
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Politics and society
Published by: Институт за политичке студије
Keywords: liberalism; democracy; political democracy; nihilism; society; national state; demos; individualism; market; manipulation; constraint;

Summary/Abstract: In his work, the author is analyzing the crisis of the western democracy in its political dimension, which had started already in 70’s of the last century, and deepened after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not only did the demolishing of the Berlin Wall mark the success of liberalism in eradicating another political ideology – socialism from the scene, but it also marked the liberals’, be they identified as neoliberals, libertarians and similar, commencement in dismissing the democracy itself with which they had symbiotically been building national and social state. The last wave of spreading democracy is actually an apparation of its desubstantiation. From competitive elitism representing its diminution that had occurred long time ago, it primarily evolves to a procedural or minimal democracy, altering into mere media manipulation by electoral body. The key of intolerance of liberalism towards democracy is not in some new challenges that a contemporary society is already facing with, but in practical consequences of the theoretical tension between democracy and liberalism.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 63-82
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Serbian