O kontinuitetu krize i kritike
On the Continuity of Crisis and Critique

Summary/Abstract: In this article we will critically look back on the some of theses of political science professor Jovan Mirić (1934 — 2015), which are published in the book called Everything Changes, the Crisis Remains (Sve se mijenja, kriza ostaje). This book is the collection of articles, essays and interviews which professor Mirić wrote and published in the period between 1983 and 2011 in various newspapers and journals. The themes which professor Mirić covered in his lengthy body of work include the crisis of the Yugoslav self-managing socialism, the problem of the war between Serbs and Croats and the status of Serbs in Croatia as a national minority. By following Mirić’s long-lasting intellectual development and approach to changed circumstances, we can critically approach to following moments: 1.) Since late 80s Mirić ´s moving to the position of liberal democracy is permeated with the contradictory relationship to his earlier devotion to the self-managing socialism; 2.) Some of articles and essays are marked with the thesis of “the two totalitarianisms” (communist and nationalist one) and Mirić thus mitigates modernist and emancipatory achievements of socialism; 3.) Mirić’s stance towards the conflict between Serbs and Croats is carried out from consistently anti-nationalistic positions, but the position regarding civic or ethnic principle remains unclear. Finally, the conclusion goes in the direction that, despite noticeable changes in circumstances and approaches to those circumstances, Jovan Mirić kept the continuity of his own critical position – although that continuity had its own crises – everything changes, but crisis and critique remain.

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