Smisao prvenstva politike nad ekonomijom u socijalizmu
The Supremacy of Politics Over Economics in Socialism

Summary/Abstract: In socialism politics must, in a way, have supremacy over economics in order to facilitate and ensure the socialist evolvement of socio-economic relations. To neglect the need for political control over the economy means to reduce the assertion of working class interests to the struggle for individual goals. in other words, to prevent a comprehensive approach to the totality of class and social interests. The direct consequence of this would jeopardize the assertion of the historical role of the working class in the evolvement of the socialist society. The conscious action of socialist subjects cannot be a mere corrective to the "free action of economic laws": it is a constituent factor of economic relations. For this reason it may be claimed that views that uphold the "free action of economic laws" in socialism represent a revision of Marx’s ideas on the relationship between politics and economics and of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Such views inevitably lead to a denial of the role of the system of self-management socialism as a form of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The »immersion« of politics in economics during the transition period should not be regarded as a diminution of the guiding role of politics but as a modification of its quality.

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