Obnova radničkog upravljanja u Jugoslaviji
Reinstatement of Workers' Management in Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: In keeping with the postulate that the working class always begins its struggle to overthrow the capitalist order by striving to assume control over the means of production, the author recounts the forms in which this struggle manifested itself during the Yugoslav national liberation struggle. In the course of that struggle a partial seizure of economic power was accomplished, with the initiative and management abilities of the broad social strata playing a decisive role. Since workers' management of production in Yugoslavia traces its roots from that period, it is argued, the proclamation of workers' self-management in 1950 was in effect the -reinstatement of that idea- after a period of discontinuity In its implementation during the stage of "revolutionary statism". From their inception, the idea and model of self¬-management in Yugoslavia were exposed to two main types of objections: the first consisted of claims that self-management was incompatible with the low degree of economic development of the society and with the technical, political and cultural level of the Yugoslav working class; the other type of objections argue that self-management has been adopted only declaratively, while in reality a staist social system and the political monopoly of the league of Communists prevails. The author makes a critical appraisal of both types of objections. In conclusion, he considers some reasons for the (un)feasibility of the self-management model of social order in the world at large and in socialist countries in particular.

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