Socijalizam, politika i ekonomija
Socialism, Politics and Economics

Summary/Abstract: The degree of consensus on the predomination of politics over economics in Yugoslav society is evident already in the answers to two fundamental issues: (1) What are the causes of the predomination of politics over economics; (2) How to alter that relationship without jeopardizing the socialist determinants of the system? The implementation of the economic stabilisation programme requires the settlement of a series of doctrinal controversies — which essentially determine the answers to these fundamental issues and without which it would be impossible to remove the obstacles to the operationalisation of the programme and to overcome the conflict of interests. In the field of economics the controversy is over certain solutions which pave the way to the promotion of different concepts of economic-social development and which diverge from the basic self-management orientation, ranging from modified statism to partial economic reformism and to so-called free enterprise. Such disputes in the sphere of the society’s economic life are reflected, directly or indirectly, also in political life. They are not manifested only in the issue of the relationship between politics and economics but also in a number of dilemmas concerning the political order and state organisation : centralisation or decentralisation, unitasation or federalisation etc.

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