Uzroci krize i mogućnosti samoupravne integracije
Roots of the Crisis and the Possibilities for Integration on the Basis of Self-Management

Summary/Abstract: J. Mirić proceeds from the postulate that the Yugoslav federation functions as a confederation and that the breakdown of unity is the main cause of the crisis. He opts in favour of Yugoslav unity and the classic form of federalism. The author of the present paper considers, for his part, that it should be first ascertained whether the shortcomings at constitutional level were the main cause of the crisis and whether it should be overcome largely by the reconstruction of political institutions or by facilitating integration on the basis of self-management. The statist production relation is the chief factor of economic and political problems, and republican statisms cannot be eliminated by reinforcing the political structure at federal level. The main issue is the realisation of the basic production relation of socialist self¬ -management rather than the state as such. The reconstruction of the political sphere is necessary only so as to set free the economic and self-management force of the producing class, and not so as to enable the state to substitute the role of the class at some other level of its organisation. The logic behind the long process of decentralisation in Yugoslavia had primarily a class character. The intention was to create room for self-management and to strengthen the position of the workers as subjects of decision-making. Any advocation of the reverse process, any demand for a strong federal state, regardless of its intention, signifies, therefore, regression in class terms. This same reasoning argues against unity of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia based on bureaucratic centralism. The author is in favour of the consistent realisation of the role of LC Y as defined in its programme, that is, as the subjective force of the class within a system founded on self-management, which alone can prevent the tendency of the federalisation of the League of Communists. The possibility for social integration is not seen in the strengthening of political but rather of self-management integration, wherein associated labour, while respecting economic laws as well as its economic and political interests, w ill itself take due account of the need for joint action and common existence.

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