Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 93 No. 5, 2023.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.93.5.4
The Principle of Solidarity and Fraternity/Brotherhood in Socialist Yugoslavia in the Light of the Catholic Social Teaching
Martina Sr. Ana Begić
orcid.org/0000-0001-9863-5474
; Catholic Faculty of Theology University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper is divided into two parts. The first part explains the concept of solidarity and fraternity on a theoretical level, especially in the light of Catholic social teaching. The second part analyzes the principles of solidarity and fraternity in Croatian society during the National Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In addition to solving the national question under a specific aspect of brotherhood, this term was understood in the spirit of the communist ideology of brotherhood and unity of the Yugoslav peoples, and the ideology of solidarity was present predominantly in the form of self-governing socialism. The paper, therefore, shows how socialist Yugoslavia had many characteristics of a totalitarian system defined by communist ideology.
Keywords
fraternity; brotherhood; solidarity; Catholic social teachings; Yugoslavia; communism; self-governing socialism; national identity.
Hrčak ID:
314309
URI
Publication date:
14.2.2024.
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