Suverenitet i sloboda (kritički osvrt na "teoriju ograničenog suvereniteta")
Sovereignty and Freedom

Summary/Abstract: In his criticism of the Soviet »theory of restricted sovereignty« the author comes from the standpoint of undivisible connection of political and human freedom in the contemporary world. Our time is time of politics, but it is not so only because politics became the first and decisive political power of the contemporary world, but also because personal freedom and dignity outside of political sphere is illusion only. Man builds his world and lives his life in the political community. Therefore each restriction of political freedom, namely, the restriction of freedom of a political community to which man belongs, is eo 'ipso also the restriction of his human freedom. By developing his thought that sovereignty is not quality of state only as a alienated political power, but that it is before all the quality of a nation as an independent political subject, the author makes conclusion that by the restriction of sovereignty in fact is restricted freedom of a nation, and it means also the restriction of freedom of individuals as its constitutive elements. The author emphasizes that the »theory of restriction of personal and political freedom together with simultaneous glorification of state and its almighty, thus in conditions where politics is alienated from people and where national sovereignty is not only restricted but almost abolished. In his criticizing the Soviet thesis about two ideological worlds and two systems the author emphasizes that the struggle of the two systems is not struggle between states or blocks, but that it is struggle between old and new in world relations. Socialism cannot, the author says, be connected itself with blocs, with this or that state or a group of states which should defend it. Socialism is a universal movement for human deliberation and it cannot be bounded by any kind of boundaries. The author considers that it is impossible in the name of proletarian internationalism (as the creators of the theory of restricted sovereignty try) to restrict the right of a nation, and together with that of its working class, to have its own way of its political organizing in the construction of socialism. Proletarian internationalism is a method of struggle and connection of the proletariat of the world, and not of the »Socialist Commonwealth*. Emphasizing of national sovereignty is not contrary to the theory of class struggle, but it is, on the contrary, the respect of national independence and sovereignty of peoples, and this is the basic condition for the organization of the working class and its struggle for socialism. The way towards the Communists integration of humanity can lead only with full national autonomy and equality in organic, natural growing of nations into human community without hegemonistical aspirations of the big to »absorb* small nations. Meanwhile, the »theory of restricted sovereignty* has another meaning: forcible imposing political receipts to the weaker. The problem of sovereignty is not only an academic question, but it is also in the nearest connection with the essential questions of socialism, international workers movement, and with complex relations in the contemporary world. Socialism cannot become rich by throwing away »bourgeois theories«, as the »theoreticians* of the restricted sovereignty think. It is possible only if the show by their actions that socialism overwhelmed them and gave something that is more human and more progressive. As well as each true contribution in a country is at the same time also contribution to the whole socialist movement, so in the same way each failure, each mistake and violent measure is - a blow for socialism as an idea as well as a real movement in the world relations. Theory and praxis (by intervention in the CSSR) of neglecting national sovereignty can have far-reaching practical political consequences, not only in relations between socialist countries but also in the international community at all.

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