Thirty years after the break-up of Yugoslavia
| Autor: | Kirn, Gal |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
postsocializem
tranzicija udc:316.74:159.953.3 primitive accumulation of memory by the state nacionalizem nationalist repossession of memory transition družbeni vidik kapitalizem re-orientation of 1989 national-neoliberalism ideologija critique of post-socialism jugoslovanske vojne post-Yugoslav wars kolektivni spomin 1989-1991 levica dis-accumulation of socialist infrastructure and wealth ideological over-determination spomin primitive accumulation of capital nationalisation of the means of (re)production break-up of yugoslavia |
| Zdroj: | Historical materialism, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 3-29, 2022. |
| ISSN: | 1465-4466 |
| Popis: | The contribution sheds a critical light on the thirty years since the break-up of socialist Yugoslavia. It presents three hypotheses for a critical reorientation of the 1989–91 sequence. Firstly, rather than seeing 1989 as the start of the longue durée of a democratic process, for Yugoslavia this trajectory was ‘realised’ as political chaos and ethnic wars in 1991. Secondly, criticising the chronological view of ‘post-socialism’, it posits post-socialism as having already emerged after 1965, marked by market reforms that ‘withered away’ socialism. Thirdly, and specific to the 1990s, in order to facilitate the transition to capitalism, a ‘primitive accumulation’ of memory and a high degree of violence unfolded, which actually dis-accumulated the socialist infrastructure and socialised means of (re)production. The post-Yugoslav transition proved a genuine ‘contribution’ to ‘making our country great again’: ethnically cleansed nation-states on the horizon of European peripheral capitalism. The contribution concludes on an affirmative note, pointing to the slow resurgence of the Left. |
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