Politika i socijalizam
Politics and Socialism

Summary/Abstract: Under the above mentioned headline the author analyzes several basic problems: the problem of relation of the notion state-society, differences between political and human emancipation, consideration of the question whether the more adequate expression for the process of political happenings and the respective of politics in socialism the notion of expiration or socialization of politics and the relation between the phenomenon of social self-government and the process of socialization of politics. Politics and political phenomena have had different status in history. In the pre-class social communities there was an undifferenciation of the social and political phenomenon. Politics is comprised in the general social functions and it does not represent some special, separated phenomenon. In fact, there is no difference between social and political phenomena, bet¬ween society and politics. State and special political organizations do not exist yet. In the class social structures there is the process of the separation of politics and political phenomena from society and social phenomena. While in the gens organizations all members of a gens performed political functions as yet not undifferentiated from general social functions, in the class systems political functions are dealt with by only certain parts of society, viz., certain social groups or even their representatives. Producers were deprived of exercising of political functions, wherein there is a distinct gradation in the class systems. The progress of society has been evident also in different grade of participation of the politics of the working part of society. We could conclude out of it that through history has constantly developed the graduated process of the socialization of politics. This process has got its full aspect in socialism. In the process of the socialist revolution and the construction of the socialist system the contradiction between private and public, political and social, has been gradually abolished; gradually disappears the difference between an illusory and real community, and so a new real social community becomes in the same time also political community. In political activity all members of social community take part again, namely, here the suppositions have been made for their participation. The process of the democratization of politics means the process of its socialization. Politics in its real meaning does not expire, but the process of Its socialization develops. The unanimity of social and political has been realizing. The association of immediate producers has been realizing, which association turns politics into a general social thing. Politics as res publica has been a finished process of the socialization of politics, in so far as it is possible to speak about a finished process of socialization. The association of immediate producers will have to take much pains and persistence in the long struggle for its realization, i. e. for the realization of the socialization of politics. Accordingly, it is not only in socialism that its importance and role stop, but on the contrary, its importance and its role become more and more dominant. But as distinguished from its importance and its role in the class social structures concerning its separation from society, here its importance and its role become more and more dominant concerning the socialization of politics and political phenomena, concerning the transformation of politics in a general social thing. Self-government is the most adequate expression of such a process of socialization of politics, what has been the reason for its being the deepest basis of a new social structure.

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