Ima li tranzicije iz socijalnog haosa
Is there a transition from social chaos

Author(s): Srećko Mihailović
Subject(s): Civil Society, Political behavior, Politics and society, Nationalism Studies
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: nationalism; democracy; anti-European orientation; modernity; passivity; political culture
Summary/Abstract: Political parties to a considerable extent generate, integrate and direct the value and ideological potential of the subjects/citizens of Serbia. Political parties colonize political culture. A weak civil society is unable to oppose colonization. The limits of this kind of action of political parties are only the deepest layers of the value habitus. Nationalism and ideological orientations such as non-democratic, traditionalist and anti-European are the key dimensions of an amorphous, de facto social-national ideological syndrome in which nationalism and state socialism have the energy potential. At the level of politics, this syndrome is generated, carried and tried to be realized primarily by SRS and SPS. National openness, democratic orientation, European orientation, political and social activity and guided activism are the key dimensions of the syndrome of modernity that gathers, integrates and directs the values ​​and behaviors of this provenance. At the level of politics, this ideological concept - in occasional cooperation - is supported, carried and tried to be realized by DS, G17 plus, LDR with the occasional involvement of DSS. Political actors of both options entice and make their supporters happy: some with the promised social-national state, and others with the charms of Europe and the all-powerful market. The common characteristic of both is the orientation towards maintaining and creating passive supporters - subjects - active only when they need to go to the polls and vote for them. In this context, parties inaugurate their ideological lures in global (national, state) interests. But can global interests in general be seen differently if citizenship and the public (more or less) exist only at the level of a theoretical construct.

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