Politika nesvrstavanja i socijalizam
The Policy of Non-Alignment and Socialism

Summary/Abstract: The attitude towards the non-alignment policy and movement is determined to a substantial degree by the concept of socialism itself. The lack of understanding and sympathy for non-alignment are not caused merely by foreign policy considerations, as might appear at first glance, but are primarily an expression of the crisis of Europocentric dogmatic models of socialism as espoused by the traditional leftist movements. This crisis has been generated for decades by certain ideas of socialism in the communist and social democratic sections of the labour movement. In the communist movement it was the insistence on a uniform, generally binding model of socialism, which is inevitably associated with the idea of "export of revolution". In the sphere of foreign policy, this implied a stress on the division of the world into blocs, with chances for the expansion of socialism depending exclusively on the expansion of the bloc of countries belonging the "socialist community". The inference made from this was that the character and tendencies of non-alignment are in essence non-social 1st. The author exa mines the possibilities of socialist development as a world-wide process within the non-aligned movement, suggesting that the abolition of the dependent status of non-aligned countries constitutes the main condition for their independent option of future development, and that the advantages of a socialist option might thus be asserted.

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