Original scientific paper
ALTERNATIVE CULTURE AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE IN SELF-MANAGING SOCIALISM
Inga Tomić-Koludrović
; Split
Abstract
ln order to describe the phenomena of alternative culture in the
Croatian version of self-managing socialism, the article proposes
the concepts "atomized alternativeness" and "alternative initiative".
ln contrast to "integrated alternative", whose previously alternative
Iifestyles and values in the late seventies and eighties became a
legitimate part ofthe market in developed postindustrial societies,
in totalitarian societies any "alternativeness" was considered
"oppositional" and potentially subversive. In the self-managing
socialist society there could not have been any new social
movements in the original meaning of the concept. Two modes
existed for making "alternativeness" public: (1) through "atomized
alternativeness" which went on almost exclusively on a personal
level and whose actors did not manage to join into an "alternative
network", and through (2) "alternative initiatives", which in part
represented alternative interests in an organized legal way, but
which were necessarily more involved in ideological rituals of the
establishment. The conclusion is that "atomized alternative"
lifestyles appear as a form of resistance and the only true
oppositional "alternative" culture in the Croatian version of socialist
self-management.
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Hrčak ID:
33214
URI
Publication date:
1.7.1993.
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