The Serbian Socialist Left and National Interest between “Sacred Goals” of the Serbian People and their Modern State
The Serbian Socialist Left and National Interest between “Sacred Goals” of the Serbian People and their Modern State

Author(s): Latinka Perović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Civil Society, Governance, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: left; socialism; radicalism; liberalism
Summary/Abstract: This essay is a summarized review of the standpoints the Serbian socialist left has taken during different phases of history regarding the unification of the Serbian people, which is the pivotal idea in modern Serbian history. Though they rejected the ideology of a “greater state” that strived towards the revival of the medieval Serbian state and the revendication of Kosovo, the Serbian socialist left nevertheless failed to find an alternative in a state focused on the individual. At the foundation of its program is the idea of a composite state, a federation of Balkan and South-Slavic nations, but also a collectivity (nation or class), not the individual. The main points of this review, initially voiced in a public lecture held in Belgrade during the nineties, have been reviewed and supplemented by results from research carried out over the subsequent years and shaped in the author’s monographs listed below.

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