Dismantling

Dismantling? The most expensive Montenegrin word, currently.

However, many still do not believe that an era is over. I know a guy who starts his day by reading a text message he sent himself the night before - DPS is no longer in power. And he swears that he still gets excited all over again. But he's not sure that will hold him for much longer.

This word is heard on every side - obviously, the focus regarding the political legacy of the old government is on some kind of superstructure that capillaryly covered the whole society, which was the source of non-institutional power or problems (depending on how you are "recognized by the terrain"), and which people usually called - the system. Such and such a deeply flawed system must be dismantled. This is the consensus in Montenegrin society at this moment.

And in order to "dismantle" such a system, what should be done and how?

A good part of that system was not based on any written norm, but was shrouded in the fog of the usual, implied, mentality, brotherhood and the like. I want to say - one part of the system can be dismantled simply by returning power to where it belongs - in the institutions, but one part can only be dismantled by long-term work on changes in the dominant mental and value paradigm here...

Again, DPS and its way of ruling was a "point of fascination" not only for supporters, but also for some opponents. The post-Depees reality is already full of details that indicate that a part of the new political elite actually lives with the mantra - when I grow up I will be DPS. That is to say - at DPS, they are bothered by the ideology and value system (which is not actually in dispute), and not by the method of governance and the immorality of an informer-poltroon order that DPS created. You will recognize them quickly - they will look like a caricature version of the former ruling party. So we have a situation where, while there is still talk of dismantling, some new "installations" are going on around us. Budva sanctification... Scene for Nušić.

How naive it sounds today, but for the first time I thought that the dismantling of the criminal-corrupt system created after the smuggling economy was possible, necessary, and above all just, back in 2006, after the Referendum. I thought it was possible that Đukanović would make that kind of cut, and historical self-redemption, let's say. In the end, he, as the main builder of that system, was perhaps the most qualified and skilled to dismantle it.

But, as we all know, the dismantling did not happen. Then. By refusing to do so, Đukanović only postponed the inevitable. And lost the historical privilege to register the authorship of such disassembly. Quite simply, I believed that he would be wise enough not to transfer to the new Montenegrin reality what is unworthy of any reality.

In short, I was a fool. Those unworthy things gained an unexpected momentum, and the state turned out to be a good business. For those loyal and unscrupulous. Đukanović's system mobilized powerful apparatchiks, national commissars, and it turned out that something of the Montenegrin "genetics" of the XNUMXs is very much alive. The hunt for national traitors was a smokescreen for looting and looting all possible social resources.

The dismantling of bare political mechanisms, or semi-mythical judicial labyrinths, will probably be possible and quickly performed, but there are zones of power that are beyond the classical mechanisms of dismantling - business, for example. To put it in Marxist terms - we have (in the meantime we got) an entire class that was created on injustice and robbery. Some of them, with good taste, may have been donors of new political forces... "New classes" grow into society in a way that is sometimes beyond the reach of any dismantling...

But, let us emphasize, the dream of "dismantling" here is first and foremost a dream of justice. And normality. And you can't blame anyone for craving those two…