The tectonic disturbances that occurred after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union (and by the way also the SFR Yugoslavia) and the transformation of the then left in Europe and the USA into parties of the "third way" greatly disrupted any idea of the existence of a political spectrum. Therefore, today it is ungrateful to talk about differentiation into left and right, with the awareness that the left lives in South America, but only occasionally raises its head in Europe (growing support for Mélenchon in France, Labor under Corbyn in Britain, individual EU parties collected in PEL). Such a thing is even more difficult in a state which, in those terms, is pre-political, due to too long immutability of power.
As much as the purists would like us to divide left-right on the basis of Marx-Smith, this is not the case today. They have turned into a range of passings that are often dictated by current events in the USA or some other influential countries. Thus, we find these divisions in the issue of NATO-Russia, atheism-religiosity, and through a whole series of social issues about marriage, abortion, LGBTIQ rights, security issues, immigration and the like.
After World War II, power in Montenegro was held by nominal "leftists" until 2020. Namely, the Montenegrin branch of the Union of Communists was transformed into the Democratic Party of Socialists in 1991, and with it, from 1997 onwards, some other parties that were socialist in name always made up the government. I believe that it would surprise everyone that parties with these names presided over the absolute sale of former social and then state property, that they economically pushed the idea of a free market and neoliberalism, which in practice was pure cronyism, a type of capitalism in which connections between leaders from politics and business are opened all business doors. After the change of government, their biggest commitment in terms of the economy was a fierce criticism of the reform based on the increase of the minimum wage. Being on the left and developing cronyism, selling off state assets and fighting the minimum wage is a pure oxymoron. At the same time, these parties were not in line with the leftist ideas of anti-militarism, anti-imperialism, cosmopolitanism, progressive taxation system, budgetary favoring of health, education, public transport and investment in universal systems of law and security.
The right, on the other hand, behaves as if it were in the seventies. It is not in dispute that the conservative spectrum always trots a little behind current events, but returning to topics that the contemporary right has solved a long time ago is a mode of behavior. There is constant talk about the bequests of rulers from previous centuries, about ancestral faith and the Slavic soul, about "living like our elders", while flirting with conspiracy theories from the margins of the western right-wing spectrum as they fight against the "evils of the modern world". Differences between the doctrines of these politicians and religious leaders hardly exist and often these politicians hide between what are dogmatic statements of religious dignitaries.
When we look around like that, we see that we don't have a left, but in its place is a right that falsely presents itself. The existing nominal right, on the other hand, is conserved in struggles that belong to a long past time. In Montenegro, you can say that you are a leftist or a rightist, but you do not have a party that represents you ideologically or that is interested in that basis - Marx or Smith.
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