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Izkoriščanje v Sloveniji in politični aktivizem s sprožanjem inhibicijskega instinkta
Exploitation of Political Activism by Triggering Inhibition Instinct

Author(s): Iztok Ostan
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Slovensko sociološko društvo (in FDV)
Keywords: exploitation; student statements; political activism; nonviolent resistance; inhibition instinct

Summary/Abstract: The research of students statements showed, that there is much labour exploitation in Slovenia and that it has been increasing; it showed also that people are not willing to offer opposition to exploitation unless they are forced by economic distress. Political activists in Slovenia and other developed countries, where the majority is not poor, therefore can’t expect the majority supports their resistance to the exploitation. The article enquires the possibilities of a nonviolent resistance against exploitation without the support of masses. Based on the analyses of gandhian forms of nonviolent resistance and personal experiences, the author sets the hypothesis of the possibility of an effective nonviolet resistance (without the support of masses), in which the resistant exposes his own life. Namely during this kind of resistance an instinctive inhibition of exploitator aggressiveness is normally triggered.

  • Issue Year: 20/2004
  • Issue No: 46-47
  • Page Range: 195-206
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Slovenian