Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.38003/zrffs.13.2
BOGDAN RADICA AS A WITNESS OF THE MISERY OF (PART) OF CROATIAN POLITICAL EMIGRATION
Stevo Đurašković
orcid.org/0000-0002-6760-8972
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article presents a critique of Croatian political emigration by its participant
Bogdan Radica. Framing the article into the concept of The Miseries of East European
Small States by the famous Hungarian historian István Bibό, the article exposes the
Bogdan Radica narrative on the misery (of part) of the Croatian political emigration.
This misery Radica first and foremost finds in the rejection of the integration into
western European and the respective US societies due to a disdain for the values
of liberal democracy widespread in emigre circles. In Radica’s opinion, the Croatian
political emigration failed to fulfil its most important task: to spread the word on the
righteousness of the demands for Croatian independence in Western European and
the US public respectively. Eventually, Radica offers a subtle analysis of the terrorist
inclinations of the youngest emigrant waves in the 1970s by using a concept of the
“Dinaric semi-intellectual” appropriated from the concept of the semi-intelligent by
famous Spanish philosopher Jóse Ortega Y Gasset; the concept which Radica already
previously deployed in describing Croatia and Yugoslavia in the immediate aftermath
of World War II.
Keywords
Bogdan Radica; political emigration; liberal democracy; Croatia; “Dinaric semi-intellectual”
Hrčak ID:
248021
URI
Publication date:
17.12.2020.
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