Number 19: Bora Mišeljić completely accepts the invitation to break the mirror (discrediting the social-political system), publishing an article under the characteristic title: “Reality and the Mirror.” In this article B. Mišeljić complains about how “we remain alone because the Person and living people are ever fewer,” but then warns “that Student will not be the silent victim of some monster mechanism, nor will it, well lubricated, execute a completely unimportant, imaginary function and thereby justify its own disappearance.”
Number 20 brought the introductory article: “As You Like It,” likewise from the pen of a member of the Vidici editorial board. The author of the text first praises B. Mišeljić because “he sees the problem of the mirror since it is obvious that there are many who are far away from understanding it as a problem.” He also openly advocates that societal problems should not be solved in a democratic way and through the normal functioning of the social-political system. “In fact, the real questions and problems cannot be completely analyzed on the level of the political plane as has been done so far. Politics is not just a limitation, but is actually one of the strongest underpinnings of the MIRROR (read: societal and political system) together with its auxiliary weapons, from institutions to ideology.” Since “real solutions cannot be given within the framework of politics,” the author counsels that “one should not emulate the speakers in the parliament and at the meetings who just keep babbling: blah, blah, and then again blah, blah.” Or, as it says in the Dictionary of Technology, “The Boy talks, the Person acts.”
A new codeword is used: “The Amateur Theater BEHIND THE LOOKING GLASS” (emphasis by the author). Like all other code words, this apparently naïve one really does look like a proposal for a new theater. But the real key for the codeword: “Amateur Theater BEHIND THE LOOKING GLASS” is given in the next issue (21), p. 2, which is the peak of the insolence and aggressiveness of this group. There it can clearly be seen that the “Amateur Theater BEHIND THE LOOKING GLASS” is the state of affairs that should take the stage after they shatter the mirror — the socio-political system. That is why the author of the text, published in number 20, invites B. Mišeljić and the editorial board of Student to join him, with the words: “What do you and your, that is our, editorial board think about, let’s say, taking part, active participation and perhaps informing the students and the rest of the world about that project,” mentioning that Bora, “probably knows people who are not steeped in politics and who might be available to join this group.”
B. Mišeljić, of course, conscientiously did his part of the job and, in number 22/23 offers the text (p. 2): “I Am Publishing Communism” whose writer signed in under the pseudonym “Marko Broz.” In this text a clear difference is made between society and the community of this group of like-minded Persons that is called a comunis. Speaking thus also in the language of code, here the thesis is emphasized that a member, comunist, answers only to his community and not to society. “Our commune, our community, must be the most important to us so we cannot proclaim the municipality, for example, to be more important than the commune. If someone goes beyond the comunis-community, they can further proclaim a province, republic or state to be the most important” (emphasis “M. Broz”). A general state of irresponsibility reigns in the socio-political system, as opposed to the community (read: this group of the like-minded) which answers to everyone. That is why “the community cannot fail” and the system can, “It is easy for the system to fail when it does not answer for itself or to others, but rather someone must answer to it.”
The next number 24 offers the text of Antonio Negri (known as the ideologist of the Red Brigade) in the column “Theory of Crisis,” which fits exceptionally well into the conception of the abovementioned group and which speaks of the complete identification of conceptually like-minded people. Here Antonio Negri, using his own terminology, proves that the only way to solve the social crisis is the overthrowing of the Constitution and the system founded upon it (“When does this mechanism collapse? When the contractual representation collapses which is the moment of the transformation of values into institutions, social products into planning and Governmental Legislation. That can happen for several reasons, which after all touch upon all the essential terms of the basic norms, i.e. the material nature of the Constitution: in the aggressive dynamics of the social contract it again becomes possible if the terms are changed of the basic proportions of the material written in the Constitution”).
Number 25 brought the introductory article (p. 2) where, under the cover of the interpretation of events in Poland, the ideology of breaking the mirror is reaffirmed. Here it is once again unambiguously claimed that all problems can be solved only by destroying the social system, by the pogrom of the Boys and the affirmation of the Person. These are the characteristic quotes: “The question is inevitable: is there an army in the world that is able to offer long term defense of the wall with THE MIRROR THAT MUST BE SHATTERED? Can the committees put an end to hope? Hope must shatter the MIRROR. The tension is actually in the mirror!”—Zoran Petrović-Piroćanac.
Number 26/27 disperses all doubt about what is meant by the mirror. In the introductory article (p. 2) it is expressly claimed that the socio-political system of socialist self-management is a mirror (which should be broken, of course): “The socio-political community (federation, republics, etc.) have taken over the duty of supplying the citizens, but in principle it is clear that they cannot do that well because they only have the illusion of decision-making, an illusion of responsibility. They (i.e. the socio-political communities) ARE A MIRROR (!!!). How does it look when an official of the mirror wants to solve real human problems? We can see that best these days in the goal of justifying the ideological concept of stabilization, beginning with the artificial solving of problems”… etc. in the tendentious style.
Keeping all the tendencies of the editorial board of Vidici in mind, with their theory of destroying the socio-political system, the editorial board of Student practically concretizes the problems in its texts.