Dominant system in the Republic of North Macedonia: Socialism or capitalism?
Authors/Creators
- 1. Professor, PhD, UBT College – Prishtina, Kosovo, Faculty of Political Sciences, Phone:+389 72 213 843, Email: xhemail.cupi@ubt-uni.net
- 2. Professor, PhD, SEE University, Macedonia, Faculty of Public Administration and Political Science, Phone: +389 44 356 188, Email: j.abdullai@seeu.edu.mk
Description
The vast majority of explanations of capitalist and socialist systems are based on their
contradictory features. However, on a general historical and theoretical level, there are
some similarities between both families of a system obtained throughout the process of
their co-evolution. Therefore, as a result of these similarities, even today, most confuse
their economic concepts. Such confusion rightly stimulates our research interest to
understand some basic categories within the political culture of citizens in North
Macedonia, i.e., understanding its homogenization level (whether it is low or high),
which is a necessary precondition for the basic consensus in society. The research, based
on the distribution of social wealth and product, and private property and market
ownership, through the survey, will measure the attitude of citizens towards the old and
new social order, respectively, towards socialism and capitalism. To accomplish this
survey by not asking correspondents direct questions, through some indicative questions,
we will focus on the constituent features of these two systems, such as justice, humanity,
the concentration of capital, and property distribution. These are also elements of a
fundamental difference between socialism and capitalism, both in theory and social
practice. The results will prove the hypothesis that in the Republic of North Macedonia,
we can not have a clear picture of the dominant system, as we have a combined mosaic
that to some extent is in favor of the new capitalist system, but without many economic
prospects.