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https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.57.1.01
ACTING POTENTIAL OF MEMORY OF THE LEFT: ON SELF-REFLECTION OF A DEFEAT
Todor Kuljić
; Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu
Sažetak
How could we rethink and organize memories of the Left in an operational and active way? How could one openly confront the Left-Wing culture of defeat? The paper considers some dimensions of the Left-Wing defeat after 1989, the nature of the linear and the contingent time, various defeat experiences of fascism and liberalism and the dialectic of hope and disappointment. One should reject the language of psychoanalysis (longing, nostalgia, sorrow, melancholy) and the teleological vision of the neoliberal winner. The Left Wing and Right Wing should be understood in new dimensions of time within a new relationship between Cairos and Chronos in the digital age. The Left needs self-reflective review of its own mistakes, if it wants to learn lessons for the future. Theory can awake practical ambition. A desirable multilayered Left-Wing memory has been damaged by dominance of one type of memory. The Left needs self-control and a balanced memory of both badly missing socialist welfare state and its own violence.
Ključne riječi
Left Wing; Melancholy; Defeat; Teleology; Self-reflexion
Hrčak ID:
237641
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Datum izdavanja:
4.5.2020.
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