Socialist societies, as very closed, were ideal environment for political mobbing. Mobbers made their victims additionally, and mostly, guilty, by making up political quilt, marking them as political enemies for life, and sometimes even their families for generations. Formally reshaped political practice of post-socialist societies shows political consciousness and habits change hard, and that tradition, even when it is pathological, survives for long, especially in politics. Since political mobbing and democracy, at least formally, do not mix, mobbing in post socialist societies becomes formally less political, but even more perfid. There are more than enough indications that this kind of perfid repression sustained in post socialist societies that are not truly, but only formally democratized. In those states mobbing frequently exceeds companies and starts to spread across other spheres of the society, becoming much more a brake than a flywheel of democratization.
Keywords:
mobbing / post-socialist society / democracy / beaters / rule of law / Serbia
Source:
Review of International Affairs, 2012, 63, 1146, 23-32
Publisher:
Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, Beograd
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AB - Socialist societies, as very closed, were ideal environment for political mobbing. Mobbers made their victims additionally, and mostly, guilty, by making up political quilt, marking them as political enemies for life, and sometimes even their families for generations. Formally reshaped political practice of post-socialist societies shows political consciousness and habits change hard, and that tradition, even when it is pathological, survives for long, especially in politics. Since political mobbing and democracy, at least formally, do not mix, mobbing in post socialist societies becomes formally less political, but even more perfid. There are more than enough indications that this kind of perfid repression sustained in post socialist societies that are not truly, but only formally democratized. In those states mobbing frequently exceeds companies and starts to spread across other spheres of the society, becoming much more a brake than a flywheel of democratization.
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Simeunović, D. M.. (2012). Political dimension of mobbing in post-socialist society. in Review of International Affairs
Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, Beograd., 63(1146), 23-32.
Simeunović DM. Political dimension of mobbing in post-socialist society. in Review of International Affairs. 2012;63(1146):23-32..
Simeunović, Dragan M., "Political dimension of mobbing in post-socialist society" in Review of International Affairs, 63, no. 1146 (2012):23-32.
