O novim odnosima u zadovoljavanju osobnih i zajedničkih potreba
Novelties in the Approach to Personal and Common Needs

Summary/Abstract: The satisfaction of personal and common needs, in keeping with self-managing socio-economic relations, founded on the socio-economic status of the working man » ... which ensures him that, by working with socially-owned resources and by deciding directly and on an equal footing with other working people in associated labour on all matters concerning social reproduction under conditions and relations of mutual interdependence, responsibility and solidarity, he shall realize his personal moral and material interests and the right to benefit from the results of his current and past labour and from the achievements of general material and social progress, and that on this basis he shall satisfy his personal and social needs and develop his working and other creative abilities«, is a very complex process. Through the actions of the organized forces in our society, in the first place the League of Communists, the Confederation of Trade Unions, the Socialist Alliance, the Union of Socialist Youth and other socio-political organisations, the new system as well as the new relations are not only conceived but can also grow, at the same rate as our society as a whole. Departures, deviations with serious consequences are possible. In the complex circumstances of our development various negative trends may threaten, to a greater or lesser extent, the basic line and the basic principles. Thus, it is possible that we might have the following developments in the sphere of the satisfaction of personal and common needs: - the establishment of a new organisation with the preservation of old relations; - the continuation of intense state interference through the prescription of rights and duties; - the constitutional right of workers to decide on the conditions and results of their work may not be fully materialized; - the sphere of social activities and of some infrastructure areas may remain separated from the sphere of labour; - the retention of the wage-relationship for a portion of workers, above all in social activities; - attempts may be made to eliminate all the accumulated irrationalities and shortcomings by inadequate methods of budget allocations; and - that the system .itself might be made so complicated, schematized, formalized and institutionalized as to become inefficient. All this calls for caution, but also for a permanent focus on the interests of all organized sociali.st forces, the emerging new institutions and the new relations we are aiming to bring about.

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