СКЈ И ТЕНДЕНЦИЈА ИНТЕЛЕКТУАЛНОГ УЛЕЊИВАЊА
THE LEAGUE OF COMMUNISTS OF YUGOSLAVIA AND THE TENDENCY OF INTELLECTUAL LAZINESS

Summary/Abstract: In the activity of every political party, and particularly of the communist party, it is possible to distinguish two phases. The first one, when the party strives to conquer power and expresses exceptional intellectual activity, since important sources of its ability to be effective and to influence the masses are found in the strength of intellectual arguments and in ideological consistency. And the second one, when that same party, after taking over the power, begins to express the tendency of intellectual laziness. The party is leaning more and more on the authority of power and of »ideological apparatus«, while less on the autonomous critical practice and strength of intellectual argumentation. The League of Communists of Yugoslavia is quoted as an exception to this usual tendency. Namely, while keeping specific distance from the power, it succeeded to resist the tendencies of revolutionary and intellectual becoming lazy. But not entirely. After taking over the power, that tendency shall emerge in the practice of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (namely, of the LCY) in various forms, in the high tide and ebb tide in the level of Party ideological-political consciousness and capacity for action. Along these lines the author analyzes three periods experienced by Yugoslav communist party in its ideological-political activities. His basic thesis is that overcoming of the existing weaknesses of ideological-political, namely marxist education, both in the Party and in society, is not possible without interventions in the wider surroundings, namely without settling the problems of the global society.

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