From Protest to Party: Horizontality and Verticality on the Slovenian Left

Alen Toplišek and Lasse Thomassen

Europe-Asia Studies, 2017, vol. 69, issue 9, 1383-1400

Abstract: This essay analyses the politics of horizontality—a key characteristic of recent forms of protest and activist citizenship—through the case of the 2012–2013 protests in Slovenia. The Slovenian case is illustrative because we can trace the emergence of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism and, subsequently, the United Left from protest through movement to party. Since we believe that horizontality and verticality are present in both movements and parties, we argue against a simple opposition between movements and parties. In particular, we focus on the reasons for the move from horizontalist ways of political organising to vertical structures.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1385727

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