Legitimiranje idealima - Značenje kategorije legitimiteta u socijalističkim društvima
Legitimation Through Ideals - The Meaning of the Category of Legitimation in Socalist Societies

Summary/Abstract: Legitimation is a constitutionally circumscribed process of justifying the political order in which those in positions of power communicate with those over which that power is exercised, as political subjects, seeking to obtain their acquiescence and develop a collective consciousness about the right of those in power to hold political power. The original source of that consciousness in the socialist societies is the assumed commonality, embodied in the concept of ideological and political unity, which is used to delegitimize any alternative projection of community organization. In view of the persistent de-subjectivizalion of those over which power is exercised in these societies, we can speak only of the self-legitimation of the Party monopoly, but not of the legitimacy of political power. The self-legitimation consists essentially in presenting the absolute monopoly of the Party as a historical necessity, and the acquiescence of those over which power is exercised takes the form of consent to de-subjectivization. This provides the ideological framework for the establishment of power as a form of communication between the sovereign and the objectified society.

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