In Yugoslav society, as in every social formation, contradictory processes took place. The main contradiction was that between socialist and capitalist processes. Capitalist processes were “spontaneous,” because they were initiated by the logic of the world capitalist system, which included Yugoslavia. In contrast, socialist processes were driven by conscious socialist practices that emerged from political decisions and could only succeed if they were accepted and supported by the masses.

We will present the main achievements of Yugoslav socialism: social property – the institution that has so far come closest to abolishing property; workers’ self-management – the institution that has so far come closest to the socialist demand that the product be utilized by those who produced it; social management in social activities (education, healthcare, pension system, social etc.) – an institution that prevented the commercialization of these activities, but did not subordinate them to state administration. We will present Kidrič’s model of economic reproduction, which connected planning at the level of the national economy and decision-making by work collectives at the level of the production unit (“enterprise”). We will briefly look at some solutions, which in reality did not really succeed, but deserve special attention and analysis, because they abolished class relations and tried to make statist administration impossible: the delegate system – an alternative to bourgeois parliamentarism; the basic organization of joint work, OOUR – an alternative to “post-Fordist” solutions of the “unità tecnologia elementare” type; contract economy – an alternative to commodity production and statist planning. We will schematically present some aspects of the destruction of the federation and the restoration of capitalism.

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