Prispevek v knjigi: Nation-states and xenophobias: In the ruins of former Yugoslavia | Tonči Kuzmanić: An attempt to distinguish nationalist from Volkish populist movements, practices and ideologies – The Yugoslav case

Over the last fifteen years, an extremely simplified mass-media stereotype of “events in the Balkans” was very aggressively imposed. It suggests that, first, we had half a century of socialism, and then when it fell, its place was taken by nationalism; therefore, nationalism broke socialism. The form of this expressive non-thinking reminds us of what Aristotle (in Physics) rejects as thinking in predetermined categories, “containers” that change their contents based on certain external causes, while they remain as they always (a priori) were. On the basis of such a fabricated (not reflective) reflex, Miloševićism, Tuđmanism, Janšism (cf. Kuzmanić 2003) and other volkish phenomena would thus represent something like “nationalism in its essence.”