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Hrvatska i antifašizam
Croatia and Antifascism

Author(s): Branko Caratan
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Croatia; fascism; antifascism; postcommunist countries; post-fascism;

Summary/Abstract: The author points out that in postcommunist countries there is a genuine danger of post-fascism, which is identical neither with the classical fascism nor with neofascism, but shares certain fundamental common traits. Like in classical fascism, expansionism is particularly dangerous in postfascism. The author shows that the project of Greater Serbia is in the very roots of the war on the entire territory of former Yugoslavia. Based on the tradition of Croatian antifascism, the author claims that the response to postfascism can only be democratic politics. Globally it means that democratic countries cannot be morally neutral or passive towards manifestations of postfascism. The historical experience with fascism shows that diplomatic means are insufficient for thwarting postfascist projects.

  • Issue Year: XXXII/1995
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 106-111
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Croatian
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