The Rift in the Praxis Group: Between Nationalism and Liberalism

Abstract

During the Cold War the praxis school of critical Marxism had been a showcase of Yugoslav anti-dogmatic alternative to the Soviet Marxism. In the process of disintegration of Yugoslavia, the Serbian praxis scholars turned into nationalists and/or liberals. Both renounced their Marxist and communist past. The latter see in the classical liberalism the historical left. In accordance with the new ideological position they engage in historical revisionism denying modernization achievements of socialism.