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Uzroci protesta mladih u suvremenom svijetu
Causes for Protests of the Young in the World

Author(s): Eduard Kale
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Sociology
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Causes for Protests; Young in the World;

Summary/Abstract: The essay is an attempt to find deeper causes for the protests of the young in the world because of the width and implicity of the wave of protests. It is inevitable to observe the phenomenon in general coordinates of contemporaneity, and here some factors can be found as well as some designations of a deeper and more far-reaching change. But to seek for comparison or single causes in some of earlier ideological, political or cultural-civilizing occurrences or changes seems to be inadequate, as well as separation and apsolutization of a single factor. Therefore, according to the author’s opinion, the most relevant factors become evident: technical medium, boom of scientific and technological human potential, formation of consumer’s society, hierarchic structuralization of society, structural changes, formation of economic and political great powers, existence of economic and civilizing underdeveloped environment, phenomenon of awaking and independence of nations, substitution of ideologies for religious, managing society from the top of united hierarchies, rapid diminishing of rural population for the town’s population account, decay of family life, population boom, decay of personality.Along with scientific discoveries, technical progress and economic development in the latest centuries which development more and more links the world in one unity alone with rapid urbanization of area and life by changing sorms of natural environment into artificial one, growth of stan¬dard of living in many parts of the world, population boom, rapidly increased communicative, scientific and technological potentials appears also monstruous growth of destroying and repressive material and organizational powers, hierarchic structuralization of society and concentration of social powers (economic, military', political and ideological ones) on the top. Along with simultaneous existence of ethnical heterogeneity and civilizing inadequacy disproportion of misery and wealth, social and political unaquality of rights in social, state and world area, existential security, and violent formation of ideological, military and economic territorial wholes. Relatively uniform material-technical basis, in which the world is being incorporated, is burdened by conflicts of all traditional and religions-ideological and traditional-habitual until subjective-psychological by struggle of each of them to survive, win or to intrude themselves, or until total removing of themselves and technical-functional nivellation of everything in unformalness. It is evident that all material, organizational and spiritual potentials of technical civilization sene national ideological and religious myths and hide themselves behind them, so that behind old values and often new »humanism« is hidden self-seeking, hypocritical and unhuman individual and national hyperegoism — along with total absence of moral, along with total predominance of hypocrisy; humanism and moral as if have quite dissapeared behind norms, taboos, mithologies, false ideologies, injustice and annulment of man and nations, annihilating vioance of technicalized world and organization. Although protests of the young generation are not to be analyzed one by one, because they are an expression of conditions in each country, all of them have in common moral revolt. Causes for their protest in developed countries can be anticipated on the basis of their programmatic idols: Marx, Marcuse, Mao Tse-tung, Lenin, Che Quevare, Proudnon, Bakunin — although their protest is, in total, ideologically and programmatically unformed.

  • Issue Year: VI/1969
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 538-546
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Croatian