ALTERNATIVNA KULTURA KAO OBLIK OTPORA U SAMOUPRAVNOM SOCIJALIZMU
ALTERNATIVE CULTURE AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE IN SELF-MANAGING SOCIALISM

Summary/Abstract: ln order to describe the phenomena of alternative culture in the Croatian version of self-managing socialism, the article proposes the concepts "atomized alternativeness" and "alternative initiative". ln contrast to "integrated alternative", whose previously alternative Iifestyles and values in the late seventies and eighties became a legitimate part ofthe market in developed postindustrial societies, in totalitarian societies any "alternativeness" was considered "oppositional" and potentially subversive. In the self-managing socialist society there could not have been any new social movements in the original meaning of the concept. Two modes existed for making "alternativeness" public: (1) through "atomized alternativeness" which went on almost exclusively on a personal level and whose actors did not manage to join into an "alternative network", and through (2) "alternative initiatives", which in part represented alternative interests in an organized legal way, but which were necessarily more involved in ideological rituals of the establishment.

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