Contracting a radical democracy in the Balkans: The ‘return of the people’ as a possibility for a leftist inauguration of politics
Contracting a radical democracy in the Balkans: The ‘return of the people’ as a possibility for a leftist inauguration of politics

Summary/Abstract: My aim is to strengthen the argument against the dereliction of the notion of democracy – as it has resulted in the Balkans and elsewhere and to provide a thesis that a radical political change in the Balkans requires the occurrence of a political event by which a new social contract can establish itself as a genuine expression of the will of the people, or more precisely a new mode of state as a result of a new balance of class antagonisms. Reaffirming the notion of the people against its political correlative – the citizen, I aim to prove that the ‘return of the people’ – as concept is crucial for the radicalization of the concept of democracy which enables the leftist politics to be inaugurated into the political proper.

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