Povijesna uvjetovanost i perspektive reforme kao suvremene etape jugoslavenske socijalističke revolucije
Historical Conditionality and the Perspective of the Reform as a Contemporary Phase of the Yugoslav Socialist Revolution

Summary/Abstract: Different, and often also quite opposite standpoints concerning the ways of the construction of the new Yugoslav economic system, claim, according to the author’s opinion, that before considering these aspects fundamental purposes of the socialist change of society have to be clearly defined, as well as of policy which best suits to these purposes. By socialism one must understand a greater socialization of conditions of life of members of society that that one which is assured by the bourgeois society. That purpose essentially defines the role of politics in socialism. The author defines the role in accordance with Marxian understanding that socialist politics is an antithesis to bourgeois politics. He defines it as an activity of overwhelming of antagonisms which come out of different »life and social conditions of the individual«. So understood politics is an exact science; it is a theory which synthesizes in itself a series of sociological disciplines (sociology, political economy, philosophy, etc.) and it has clear criteria for valuation of what in a given phase of the development of society is or is not socialist and progressive, as the author illustrates with an example of some conceptions about the role of private ownership in socialism and similar »dilemmas« of the economic reform. The author separately considers the economic and social purposes of the reform. The first purpose - the high labour production - must be only a means for a fundamental social reconstruction in the direction of a stronger affirmation of economic, cultural and other interests of the working class as really »guiding« movable strength of the Yugoslav society. The high degree of the economic development is possible to realize also by the centralist management with the national economy with a rather small independence of enterprises, but the affirmation of the workers’ self-government in all the spheres of social activities presupposes a radical break with such a policy where •the bureaucracy from above defines and mercifully allots« (Engels) to the worker according to their will a certain part of the product of his own work. In the definite break with such a policy the author sees the fundamental task of the economic and social reform and from that position he valuates successions and failures realized in the first three years of its existing. Polemizing with the economist understanding of the purpose of the reform (high productivity) the author in his conclusion pledges that full employment and distribution according to primary necessities (lodging, food, etc.) of all social members be the most important aim of the reform. In the name of great ideals, concludes the author, socialism must not ignore »small« ideals.

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