Socijalna pravda i “blokada”
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND “THE BLOCKADE”

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the author shows why the student movement for free education (“the blockade”) is wrong in asserting that the cause of injustice in higher education is the implementation of an allegedly neo-liberal project – the Bologna Process. Furthermore, he claims that, in a serious discussion which would include all interested parties, the students’ demand of “everything free on all levels in the highest possible numbers” could not be defended as a just demand. A socially just higher education would not be one which would be available free of charge to all interested parties, but one which would ensure access to higher education to the poor. The exposé of the article is divided into three sections. First, Kurelić presents some ideological-theoretical formulations used in advocating free education. Then he attempts to show the short-sightedness of such formulations by referring to the example of criticism aimed at the higher education reform in Croatia, the so-called Bologna. In the third and final section, he explains why he is of the opinion that egalitarian liberals such as Scanlon and Barry, developing their line of argument from the position of social justice, would ask for much more than cancellation of school fees on all levels, and why the demand formulated according to Barry’s categories is more solid.

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