Volume 69, 2018
Political Philosophy
Bogdana Koljević
Pages 217-221
Radical European Politics or New Colonialism?
This article examines the contemporary political-social crisis of Europe, tracing causes of such crisis in the project of the EU or, more precisely, in fundamental contradictions and intrinsic difficulties of EU theories and practices in relation towards the concept of the political and concept of democracy. Investigating various, principal as well as particular examples of the gap between EU forms and European realities, with special reference to processes of depolitization, the author, in dialogue with both philosophical conceptions of radical left and right, lines out new shapes of discursive movements and social impulses for action. In final part of the article, coming from the thought on true democracy as an alternative to the current EU project, the choice between politics and anti-politics is presented. In such light, rethinking of both the contemporary situation and the future of Europe, doubtlessly refers to the event of the political based on freedom, equality and justice.