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In his Afterword, Boris Buden reminds us of the critical importance of Jameson’s call for historicizing the particularities of past, present and future, and emphasizes that the (Yugoslav) past cannot be reduced to a simple conflict between two systems—socialism and capitalism—which is then resolved by relegating the former to the past while heading to a “bright” (capitalist) future. Therefore, The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia is about an ongoing struggle whose past is as undecided as its final outcome. Buden also reiterates the centrality of the historical moment in which this volume is assembled—namely, the global rule of neoliberal capitalism that is ideologically, and troublingly, positioned as the only “viable” option in postsocialism and beyond.
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Buden, B. (2017). Afterword: And so They Historicized. In: Jelača, D., Kolanović, M., Lugarić, D. (eds) The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47482-3_19
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