Država u jugoslavenskoj teoriji i praksi
The State in Yugoslav Theory and Practice

Summary/Abstract: According to the author, the basic tenets of Marxist theory concerning the withering away of the state are operational in terms of methodology/ theory as well as of revolutionary strategy. This does not exclude the need for further theoretical thinking about the meaning of the withering away of the state in contemporary society. To what extent is Marxist theory the basis for the revolutionary strategy and practice of the state organization in Yugoslavia? After the period of centralized etatism in the first post-war years the Marxist theory about the withering away of the state was ’’remembered” again It was then necessary to establish social preconditions and to organize the process of the withering away of the state through self-management. An undeveloped theory, or rather an insufficiently worked out revolutionary strategy of the withering away of the state, corresponded to an undeveloped social practice. Short periods of initial processes of the withering away of the state alternated with long periods when the role and the functions of the state were being strengthened. Under the conditions of the current crisis the practice of the withering away of the state is at its lowest point. Polycentric etatism is at work and Yugoslav society is again at cross-roads: either etatism as a social state of affairs or the withering away of the state through the development of self-management. That this second alternative should be implemented depends on the existence of a mass revolutionary movement functioning on the principle of self-determination or self-organization This does not exclude the existence of the LCY, yet in terms of a specific form of the producers' class organization.

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