Democratic Ideology

The wtihdrawal of the communist political ideology from the Albanian historical scene consides wtih the
return of the Albanian people to the European political and cultural scene,respectively along with a democratic revival
which begins first in Kosova,and then in Albania at the end of the eighties.This is a historical process inspired by
freedom-loving ideals;the ideal of a free and democratic life in all the Albanian territories,and in Kosova,also the ideal
of the national indenpendence.It is comprehensible,therefore,why the democratic revival,which the Albanian people is
undergoing today,national indenpendence and democracy represented indivisible matters of the national interest.
Then as today ,intellectuals make that social stratum which lies down democratic demands,and at times,national ones,
and the youth,first of all is that power that endeavours for their implementation.Democratic ideas,or better to say
democratic and ntional ideas,that have inspired the present democratic revival in our life,are to be found in the thinking
creativity in which violations of human rights are discovered and even deplored,limitations of freedom of thought and
expression are criticised.But , the greatest instigation to the Albanian democratic revival is given by the thinking activity
in which,on one hand the pressing,chauvinistic,hegemonistic policy of Serbia in Kosovo is unmasked,and on the other
legitimate rights of the Albanian people for self-determination are defended.This means that the unsolved question of the
Albanians in the Balkans and violation of their individual rights and liberties in the entire political space represent the
inspiring content of the democratic ideology of the present Albanian movement.
The ideology of the Albanian National Revival is an ideology of liberation from the slavery of an Eastern
state-as Turkey was,respectively an ideology of protection from the occupying policy of the Balkan neighbours,which
belong to the circle of the Eastern European civilisation-as Serbia is.The democratic ideology of the present Albanian
movement too is an ideology of protection from the Serbian oppression,on the one hand,and from the one-party
totalitarism,coming again from the East,from the European East this time,on the other hand.As in the times of the
National Revival,today too,in this time of our democratic revival,we are trying to free ourselves from the consequences
of our deparature from Europe by getting back to Europe.As in the times of the National Revival,today we may notice
too that any time we were compelled to get away from Europe,Europe pulled away from us too:without feeling sorry
for us,or even worse by pushing us even further into political and economic insulation.If the balance-sheet of our
deparature from Europe after the Second World War is still to be made,consequences of the departure after Turkish
conquests were made in time,although the tragical price of that departure is continuing to be paid even today.
Why can we say this?