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Џон Ленон, левичарски активизам и југословенски социјализам
John Lennon, Leftist Activism and Yugoslav Socialism

Author(s): Aleksandar Raković
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: John Lennon; Yugoslavia; self-managing socialism; Marxism; Trotskyism; hippy movement

Summary/Abstract: John Lennon’s pacifist, anti-imperialist, and communist political stands attracted worldwide public attention at the turn of the sixties and seventies of the 20th century. The Yugoslav public was also interested in his stands and was specially intrigued by Lennon’s sudden interest in the Yugoslav socialist self-management system (1971). Not only did he write about it, but Lennon gave an interview to the Yugoslav press saying that the Yugoslav system of self-managing socialism was on the best path to communism. Later, especially after Lennon’s death (1980), his left-wing views that sometimes intersected with Marxism were underscored in the Yugoslav public. According to what he publically said, John Lennon was and remained a friend of socialist Yugoslavia.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 251-265
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian