ПОЛИТИКА И ИНТЕЛИГЕНЦИЈА — СТАЉИНИЗАМ И МАОИЗАМ
POLITICS AND INTELLIGENCE — STALINISM AND MAOISM

Summary/Abstract: Classical marxist theory does not pay much attention to the issues of the role of intelligentsia and of its position in society. On the other hand, political ideology and political practice, under the pressure of real social events and developments, including the political needs, settled these issues mainly at the detriment of the realization of the real role of intelligentsia in society. Stalinism and maoism in China at the time of the cultural revolution are but two examples of an extreme expression of the might of political peak against the intelligentsia, and more particularly toward the creative intelligentsia. Persecution of intellectuals up to their physical annihilation in Stalinism and destructive wave of cultural revolution which destroyed intellectual life in China, are obvious proofs of the rule of the »myth of politics« and of »political myths«. Although emerging in different conditions and of different scope, they do have similarities expressed in serious threat which endangers the system of values of the communist movement in the world, as well as provoke the need for facing up this experience.

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