Overcoming Opposition
point-e | August 26, 2008
Any kind of civic engagement – be it in democratic or non-democratic countries – primarily deals with questions and problems of political culture. Politics, and the role authorities play in it, dominates the picture in authoritarian systems, of course; nevertheless activists should never forget that it is (usually) society which develops a certain type of government. These thoughts are inspired by understanding the case of Belarus as a contemporary sequel to the “normalized” societies of late Czechoslovak and East German real socialism. Its economic development – so far quite smartly – shadows the revived Russian ressource-based global aspirations, and the bureaucratic regulation of life may be taken as an answer to the wide-spread popular fear of change in an era of seemingly universal transformation.
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