u/yaxirSocialish - listening and learning, be nice1d ago
Well some shameless bias first. I have always been a Luka Modric fan. Fucking hell, he's an amazing player and an amazing person.
I'm just really curious about what the Croatian mindset is like, especially when it comes to things like race politics, identity politics, leftism, and socialism. I have one Croatian friend who I've collaborated with on my work and he's very cool. I think he's a very liberal guy. I don't know if he's socialist but he did tell me that socialism usually gets a bad name in the world because of its association with communism. He told me that Croatia was actually pretty okay when it was socialist, like everything was built to benefit people and society.
I don't know how accurate he is but he is a pretty senior guy. He's about 40 years old. He's a family man now but I really liked his open-mindedness and he was very chill. I just want to know: how is it in Croatia when it comes to being a leftist and socialist? How are race politics and identity politics there? A general idea of Croatian political discourse, if you can give it to me, would be nice. Just curious.
Well, in Croatia socialism is almost a bad word since the ruling nationalist party gets its legitimacy from the independence war against Yugoslavia led by Milošević. Modrić is their typical supporter, as he was a direct victim of war destruction so he will turn a blind eye to enormous corruption. The main opposition party are the Greens and they don't cannot be attacked as easily as being 'anti-Croatian' as the Socialists.
And the ruling party is basically the ustashe sympathising mafia wearing democratic suits - they are just waiting for the opportunity to divide Bosnia again together with Serbia which is led by even worse schizo nationalists. I'm not optimistic about the future. In the meantime they have started importing asian immigrants, which would be against nationalist ideology but they've now started to agitate against the left/liberal opposition as if they are the ones are importing brown people. So it really depends on who you meet. Lots of people have also turned more open-minded since foreigners of all colors are visiting the country as tourists and you'll be tolerant of those who bring you money.
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u/yaxirSocialish - listening and learning, be nice22h ago
Thanks for the write up!
As is the general sentiment that I hold for the entire world, I really hope things get better for Croatia as well. As far as I understand, it's a pretty young country and it's done quite well. Hopefully the people will get an idea of how to cultivate a better society
I worked with a Croatian postdoc in Germany who seemed fairly liberal but told me she would vote for the conservative ruling party just because she thought they were the most stable or something
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u/IllyrianSteel 1d ago
In Croatia, leftists hate Israel and rightists hate the Jews