Contracting a Radical Democracy in the Balkans - The Return of the People as a Possibility for a Leftist Inauguration of Politics

Authors

  • Artan Sadiku Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51151/identities.v11i1.297

Keywords:

democracy, radical democracy, the people, Balkans

Abstract

My aim is to strengthen the argument against the dereliction of the notion of democracy – as it has resulted in the Balkans and elsewhere and to provide a thesis that a radical political change in the Balkans requires the occurrence of a political event by which a new social contract can establish itself as a genuine expression of the will of the people, or more precisely a new mode of state as a result of a new balance of class antagonisms. Reaffirming the notion of the people against its political correlative – the citizen, I aim to prove that the ‘return of the people’ – as concept is crucial for the radicalization of the concept of democracy which enables the leftist politics to be inaugurated into the political proper.

Author(s): Artan Sadiku

Title (English): Contracting a Radical Democracy in the Balkans - The Return of the People as a Possibility for a Leftist Inauguration of Politics

Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015)

Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities – Skopje 

Page Range: 67-88

Page Count: 13

Citation (English): Artan Sadiku, “Contracting a Radical Democracy in the Balkans - The Return of the People as a Possibility for a Leftist Inauguration of Politics,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015): 67-88.

Author Biography

Artan Sadiku, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje

Artan Sadiku is a theorist and activist from Skopje and holds a PhD in political philosophy. His primary interests are theories of the subject, feminism and radical practices in politics and arts. He works at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities in Skopje, where he lectures at the gender and cultural departments and is actively involved with the Leftist movement Solidarnost and Cultural Club Syndicate.

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Published

2015-01-01

How to Cite

Sadiku, A. (2015). Contracting a Radical Democracy in the Balkans - The Return of the People as a Possibility for a Leftist Inauguration of Politics. Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 11(1), 67-88. https://doi.org/10.51151/identities.v11i1.297

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015): Vol. 11, No. 1 (Summer 2015) - Issue No. 22 | Topic: The Future of the Idea of the Left

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