ABSTRACT
The state of the Croats, which also used to exist in the medieval era, was renewed as a puppet state during the Second World War and after the secession of the Second Yugoslavia in 1991. It could be argued whether the Croats renewed their own state or whether it was a variation of the positions they had within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Some academics consider that present-day Macedonians in Macedonia had no state traditions or had them until separation from the Second Yugoslavia in 1992. In the Second Yugoslavia there were divisions on an East-West line instead of widening acceptance that political pluralism and markets were essential ingredients for any successful society. Political passions in Fromm’s meaning have largely and obviously been present during the twentieth-century Southern Slavs’ history. Most of the Yugoslav successor states try to achieve qualities that are supposed to maintain a homogeneous sense of community within the country.
