Političko samoposredovanje socijalističkog društva u svjetlu "Kritičke analize"
Political Self-Mediation of Socialist Society in the Light of the "Critical Analysis"

Summary/Abstract: The crucial question is to what extent the functioning of the political system of socialist self-management depends on the results of an analysis of two relationships: the external relation of that functioning in which we examine the social effect of the regulatory practice mediated through the political system; two, the internal relation of that functioning in which we examine the interaction between parts of the system. The Critical Analysis... maintains that the domination of etatism and the monopolistic position of the technobureaucracy in management are responsible for the insufficient social effect of the regulatory practice mediated through the political system. This means that the basic reason of the political system’s external lack of functioning resides in an unfavourable relationship within the structure of management power. The Critical Analysis. . . therefore ought to offer suggestions that might help to change the power relationship in the society, namely to de-etatize production and to de-bureaucratize management, i. e. strengthen the managing power of the self-managers. Instead, the Critical Analysis ... offers marginal corrections of a normative and institutional kind on the micro-level of the political organization of society and calls upon the subjective forces of socialist self-management to increase their activity. This hardly promises a change in power relationships in favour of the social forces of self-management.

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