Modern State and New "Shackles"
Keywords:
Modern state, transition, quasi-neoliberal experiment, crisis, “new elites”, alternative institutionsAbstract
The subject of this article is a critical analysis of the thirty-two-year post-socialist „transition“ in Montenegro and its immediate area in terms of revisiting the existing crisis practices and many of the dilemmas that I have been thinking about. Among them, the pernicious quasi-neoliberal experiment occupies a domi-nant place. The purpose of this article is, in addition to confirming real institutional changes, to demystify the interests and anti-developmental ideological and dogmatic platform, apologetics and politics of this experiment, which led to a vicious circle of crisis repetition. I have tried to explain this „ominous transitional phenomenon“ (E. Husserl's expression) in this articles, highlighting its main causes and effects, using descriptive, politico-economic, institutional and comparative analysis, with selective quotations from well-known authors. Although the text offers several hypotheses, one of them was the main one for me: the reproduction of any social evil is possible only under conditions of institutional underdevelopment and a quasi-institutional alter-native. In conclusion, it is stated that the instruments of violence were distributed among the elite groups. In this sense, we suggest to liquidate alternative institutions and privileged "elites".
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