The Plausibility of the Idea of Yugoslav Socialist Self- Management: The Free Self-Managing Communities as Autonomous Organizations of Social Cooperation
The Plausibility of the Idea of Yugoslav Socialist Self- Management: The Free Self-Managing Communities as Autonomous Organizations of Social Cooperation

Summary/Abstract: Author starts with the claim that the reference to the idea of the Yugoslav socialist self-management system is meaningful today only in the context of a wider question of alternative models of social and political solidarity that would be capable of transcending the reductionist, dominant, politico-elitist, essentially class-conditioned models of political representation. In other words, this reference is meaningful only if positioned in the context of the search for the future form of social cooperation that “extends across the spheres of social production and reproduction” (Hardt, Negri, 2017: 66). The new and some of the older forms of social solidarity which remain ‘below the radar’ of contemporary capitalist hegemony and which, in addition, successfully defy its overwhelming appropriation, are in need of a new form of organization and, at the same time, of a new vocabulary and articulation. The complex, vast production of sociality stubbornly defies its reduction to a few simple but dominant patterns of political representation. For the last few decades or so, this hegemony has managed to secure its domination mainly through the developed strategies of distraction, such as the threat of immigration and issues concerning security and identity. Although, as time goes by, this distraction is becoming less and less persuasive.

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