Karakter “strukturnog prilagođavanja” u jednoj nacionalnoj državi: slučaj Srbije
THE NATURE OF “STRUCTURAL ADAPTATION” IN A NATION-STATE: THE CASE OF SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: The author is deconstructing the logics and the consequences of “structural adaptation” to the laws of the market and profit in Serbia from the 1960s until today. The paper consists of three systematic parts. The first one is a description of the period from 1965 to 1991. It is shown that the roots of capitalist restoration can be found in economical reforms undertaken within nominal socialism, which opened the way for a more free action of the market mechanisms. The second part of the paper is dedicated to the so-called “Milošević period” (1991 – 2001) during which, under the auspices of degenerated political capitalism and in a blocked context, the process of structural adaptation continues, in favour of the continuative nomenclature of the former collective owners, or the new class of lumpenbourgeoisie in formation. The third part is an analysis of the neoliberal period after the “democratic” changes in 2001 and the character of its own comprador political capitalism, which enters the final phase of the structural adaptation and redistribution of wealth towards the higher classes. Based on the results of the analysis, the author concludes that the process of a decade of destruction of Serbian society was conditioned by an agenda, i.e. it was conditioned by class interests.

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