“Imperial and colonial attitudes still define the terms 'civilized world,' 'international community' and 'civil society.' Balkan people were never too impressed by civilization. As early as 1871, the founder of the Balkan socialist movement, Svetozar Marković, ridiculed the entire 'civilized… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share Image
“I became an anarchist very early on. Anarchism, in my mind, meant taking democracy seriously and organizing prefiguratively- that is, in a way that anticipates that the society we are about to create. Instead of taking the power of the state, anarchism is concerned with socializing power- with creating new political and social structures not after the revolution, but in… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share
“This book is not a scholarly volume, it is not a piece of investigative journalism, and most emphatically it is not a work of… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share Image
“The Balkans I know is the Balkans from below: a space of bogoumils- these medieval heretics who fought against the Crusades and churches- and a place of anti-Ottoman resistance; a home to hajduks and klephts, pirates and rebels; a refuge of feminists and socialists, of antifascist and partisans; a place of dreamers of all sorts struggling both against provincial "peninsularity"… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share
“The construct of a new, fictional 'Balkans' [is] a result of linguistic violence beginning with the verb 'to balkanize,' which most of the world's… — Andrej Grubacic Copy Share Image
“I feel absolutely no loyalty to Serbian, Croatian, or Bosnian national causes. I have no other emotion but utter contempt for people who helped… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share Image
“Imperial and colonial attitudes still define the terms 'civilized world,' 'international community' and 'civil society.' Balkan people were never too impressed by civilization. As… — Andrej Grubačić Copy Share Image
![“The construct of a new, fictional 'Balkans' [is] a result of linguistic violence beginning with the verb 'to balkanize,' which most of the world's dictionaries define primarily as 'to divide.' Linguistic terrorism is only one part of the larger process of stigmatization that aims to establish…” quote by Andrej Grubacic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/124/andrej-gruba-i-55033_language_the-construct-of-a-new-fictional-balkans_1808015.jpg)
