Rugovism as a copy of the Czechoslovakian Dilence

To understand political movements or ideology correctly, it is necessary to understand the context within which they arise and develop. The context in which Rugovism was born is that of communism. The way the communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, presents the basic model Rugova and his led political movement supported.

In this direction, the main political inspiration Rugova took from the Czechoslovakian instability. The entire peaceful Kosovo resistance, based on the establishment of the parallel political system, is copying the tactics of this discipline.
When the Soviet Union crushed Prague Spring in 1968, anti - Communist Palestinian intellectuals came to some conclusions:

1. The change of the communist regime by violence is not possible.

2. Nor is the peaceful change of the regime within possible through gradual reform.
3. The only solution remains to create a parallel space of thought and opposition action.

Vaclav Benda, Czech philosopher who was part of the dissident circles, coined these conclusions in his famous text “parallel city”. The concept of this city envisions the creation of opposition structures that included politics, the economy, education, culture, health, which would function independently of the state system, with the aim of deepening this system's discreditment.

This concept of the regime's non-violent opposition was interpreted in the West as countering civil society and the totalitarian regime, and this later brought the establishment of the anti-communist cult of civil society, within which the belief that no depressing regime could endure during the peaceful civil opposition of citizens. Rugovism is the application of these political ideas in post- 1989 Kosovo conditions.

But each copy differs from the original and common political formulas are contextual and do not function equally in all situations.
The parallel system, created by the Czechoslovakian dissidents, was facing a downward authoritarian regime whose ideology had almost lost all credentials and supporters.

Meanwhile, our parallel system was facing a newly established and multi-virtal regime -- Milosevic's fascist regime, which was inspired by an ultranationalist ideology, ready to offer justification of all forms of violence's exercise on Albanians.

Our parallel city could not do more than what it did: the ideological insinuation of the Serbian regime and the keeping the Kosovo issue alive on the international level. When Kosovo was not mentioned at the Dayton Conference at all, then it was found that international politics, despite the consensus it has for the pacifists, cannot move in the absence of armed opposition. This creates conditions for KLA appearance.

Surrounded by accommodated bureaucratics in the power of parallel structures, Rugova failed to read the new situation and realise that the Kosovar Parale City had reached its limits. What happened next is a story known to everyone.

*The account in question is taken from Mr. Latif on Facebook.