This book is a critique of the regressive nature of modernity, the biopolitical, necropolitical, and colonial character of (global) capitalism, and the subservience to such a system in the former Yugoslavia. By relying on leftist and decolonial theoretical apparatuses, this work addresses the coloniality of power as a contemporary form of colonialism through which developed countries’ monopoly on the definition of concepts like reason, freedom, and progress continues. The critique of representation and perception of these concepts as ideologically neutral is, in these terms, the main point of approach to the analysis of the entanglement of capitalism and colonialism on both a wider scale and in the periphery. It is argued, therefore, that coloniality permeates the contemporary architecture of power and capitalist modes of production, which results in suppression/pacification of pro-equality struggles and the depoliticization of social-political realities, as well as ideology itself. Hence, one of the main theses is that commitment to (the Eurocentric notion of) “progress” and knee-bending to the “post-ideological” ideology lead only to the next iteration of capitalism. So, if yet another version of the capitalist/colonial order, and its democracy, is seen as a solution, this book wants to be a part of the “problem.”
