Zbornik Janković, Vol. VII No. 8-9, 2024.
Review article
THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF RUDOLF BIĆANIĆ IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM AND THE PRESENCE OF CAPITALISM IN THE CROATIAN COUNTRYSIDE
Bruno Šagi
Abstract
R. Bićanić is one of the greatest Croatian intellectuals in the 20th century. He was an economist, lawyer, sociologist and politician, and in this paper Bićanić’s view on the development of capitalism and its presence in the Croatian countryside until the Second World War is discussed. Bićanić does not synthesize his view of capitalism in one book, but does so through several books. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to try to synthesize Bićanić’s thought on capitalism „in one place“ based on his books. The paper also answers the question of whether Bićanić was a capitalist or an anti-capitalist and whether he proposed solutions to improve the lives of peasants within the capitalist system. Bićanić’s books that were analyzed for the purpose of this work are: Počeci kapitalizma u Hrvatskoj ekonomici i politici and Doba manufakture u Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji 1750-1860 in order to show his position on the development of capitalism in the Croatian countryside during the rule of the Habsburg family, and Kako živi narod and Ekonomska podloga hrvatskog pitanja in order to show the presence of capitalism in the Croatian countryside and its consequences during the rule of the Karađorđević family.
Keywords
Rudolf Bićanić, capitalism, economic history, countryside, peasants, HSS
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Publication date:
29.8.2024.
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