Bye-Bye Serbia’s SPS, the Socialists Who Weren’t

The starting of the SPS was advantageous: it acquired from the League of Communists of Serbia a big subscription, substantial home, and official and casual control of almost every organization in the state.

Born as a celebration of power, it held almost outright power till it was gotten rid of in 2000, and imitated a celebration of power later on.

If we wish to discuss the SPS’s concepts, it never ever had numerous; the celebration enjoyed to parrot some mottos from the state socialist duration to please a part of its electoral base, and, to obtain the majority of its program from Vojislav Seselj’s Serbian Radical Party, SRS, to mobilise the rest.

What it had rather was a structure that ended up being the structure for how power would be worked out in Serbia in the coming years: privatise public residential or commercial property to your wealthier advocates and employ the rest; marginalise options while promoting worry; and preserve control over the media, the cops and intelligence services, and the grey economy.