Draft:Aleksandar Matković

Aleksandar Matković (1988) is a Marxist philosopher and politician from Novi Sad, Serbia, writing mainly on Marxist education and economic history. He received his PhD at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts on the topic of the discussions on the political economy of Nazism in the Frankfurt School, for which he received the "Civil Society Scholar Award" in 2018. He authored the "Jadar Declaration" and influenced the Serbian Green-left Front.

From 2010-2016, he was a member of the theoretical group "Gerusija". From 2016-2020 he was a coordinator of the Regional Science Center in Novi Sad. He was one of the founders of the Student movement of Novi Sad, as well as the platform for the study of commons "Zajedničko.org", and runs a blog called "Research and Alternatives" . Following the mass Serbian protests against lithium mining, he established "ECO Social Action", an environmental NGO which dealt with the study of environmental movements and brought together anti-lithium groups from Chile, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Serbia to sign the so-called "Jadar Declaration" which established "a network of groups primarily to exchange information between countries where lithium is mined or its ore is extracted in any other way". A year later, he joined the Green-left front, the main Serbian oppositional parliamentary party, in which he helps shape the party's new economic policy. He was a visiting scholar at Humboldt University and the University of Amsterdam on various occasions, and was nominated to become a fellow at Amsterdam's Transnational Institute in 2023. He currently works at the Institute of Economic Sciences in Belgrade, at the Department for Economic History.