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Idejnopolitični nazor Edvarda Kardelja v okviru evropskega socializma
Political View of Edvard Kardelj Within the Framework of European Socialism

Author(s): Janko Prunk
Subject(s): History of ideas, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Government/Political systems
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: Edvard Kardelj; European socialism; political history; socialist self-managing political system;

Summary/Abstract: On a basis of comprehensive original publicistic and archive material the author attempts to analyse and assess the political view of Edvard Kardelj within the framework of European socialism. Through analysis of Kardelj's writing and also his political conduct during all three periods (before the World War II, during it and in the postwar socialist Yugoslavia), he comes to a conclusion that Kardelj remained true to revolutionary Marxism of Leninist type throughout his life. According to author's hypothesis, Kardelj's final work Courses of development of socialist self-managing political system (Smeri razvoja političnega sistema socialističnega samoupravljanja, 1977) indicates a withdrawal from Leninist paradigm.

  • Issue Year: 37/1997
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 105-116
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Slovenian