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• W779618830 abstract "Editorial NotePolitics does not create ideals, that is the task of philosophy. It does not calm thoughts or passions, that is the task of faith. It does not care for nuances, nor does it study peculiarities, for these belong to the field of literature. Politics satisfies the needs of life; it is not imagination, but work. Therefore it requires power, it requires And with society one cannot reach an ideal, but only approach it. Conscious peoples, like serious individuals, walk in slow, but firm steps. Only children run, stumble, break their noses or even heads. Denial is not but vulgarism. True criticism builds, it does not destroy. True by exposing the evil, demonstrates the good. It presents both light and warmth, since it originates not only from truth, but also from love. Truth without love is just half of truth, love without truth is a fade shadow of love.Stjepan Radic, 1904 (translated by Jasmina Bozic)I decided to begin this Editorial Note with now more than a century-old quotation from Stjepan Radic, the founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party and one of the greatest Croatian politicians of all times. There are several reasons for this choice. Let me start with the more superficial ones. First of all, a quotation from a Croatian politician seems to be appropriate for the introduction to the thematic issue dealing with research on political attitudes and mentalities in Croatia. Second, a high esteem that Radic enjoys among Croatian citizens 85 years after his death testifies to his political greatness. It is not an exaggeration to say that Radic's reputation is still today higher than that of most Croatian contemporary politicians.But there are also more substantive reasons for the choice of this particular quotation. The foremost among those is Radic's realisation that requires society. This is all the more important if one takes into account that Radic is widely known for his insistence on the importance of economy for the nation's well-being. However, here we see that he did not forget society either, because, as he implied, the power of politics draws its legitimacy from the I find these thoughts still actual. Politics indeed requires both economy and I would also add that none of the members of this triple may be subsumed under the remaining two. And in particular, society, understood as a domain in which distinctively human sociality and solidarity have been exercised, cannot be subsumed under economy or politics - a fact that seems to be so easily overlooked today.Another important point is Radic's insistence on consciousness of and seriousness of individuals. Let me dare to suppose if Radic were still alive, he would today speak of peoples and individuals, since only reflexive human agents are capable of true criticism, as he conceived it.Finally, there is in Radic's words, particularly in the last lines, a tone of deep and universal morality - something I find sorely missing from most of today's political discourse. To all those who argue that politics should avoid moralizing discourse, I can only reply that grounding one's discourse in deep and universal morality is very different from superficial moralizing. After all, the basic values of equality and freedom, on which democracy rests, are deeply and universally moral, so that democracy and democratic politics are in that sense inseparable from morality. Accepting others as dignified human beings is a moral requirement in the sense that no amount of economic calculation can justify it, yet it is the requirement on which any democratic project needs to be based if it is to be called democratic at all.Moreover, the greatest politicians, from Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi, to Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela, were all figures of undeniable moral integrity. Instead of relentlessly searching for more effective rhetorical spins, contemporary politicians should do much better if they were more careful about their moral integrity. …" @default.
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• W779618830 title "Contemporary Politics Lost in Dead Ends? - Not Necessarily!" @default.
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