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Uvodnik: Apstraktna demokartija
Editorial: Abstract Democracy

Author(s): Sonja Biserko
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Keywords: Serbia; European Prospects; Democracy

Summary/Abstract: Criticism in public sphere preconditions a democracy. But every critical public sphere needs to be governed by democratic principles and realities of a social context. Otherwise, criticism becomes futile. Take, say, the dissident movement in Serbia in 1960. Its criticism of the then regime was an abstract, dogmatic leftism offering no fundamentally new values. Its activity put an end to the economic reform, as Academician Mihajlo...

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 145-146
  • Page Range: 3-4
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: Serbian
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