Kirn
"Post-socialism has become the mainstream doxa, but I suggest we call it by its real name: "national-liberalism". The latter has not only held the keys to the interpretation of recent history but has also become the hegemonic ideological backbone for the implementation of authoritarian capitalism. Its major coordinates were based on an openly negative modality, which entails a substitution of the prefix "post-" with the prefix "anti-". The real negative starting point for the dominant doxa is based on anti-Yugoslav(ism), anti-Marxism, and anti-socialism/-communism. Needless to say, the transitional discourse, or the "transitology", has taken an openly apologetic stance towards the transition to capitalism with a nationalist face."
-Gal Kirn, Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform, and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia
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