Yugoeslavia: from workers' councils to republics' war

Abstract

Today's war between the ex-members of the old Yugoslavia gives us the opportunity to confront retrospectively the former self-management. Many decades ago Yugoslavia was a model for the whole World, not only regarding the political Greatness of Marshall Tito, but also because its own way of Socialism was an alternative model for Capitalism and the traditional State Socialisme, with an worker's class having its own self-governement. However, the promise of a new Socialism with self-management of the workers was becoming by an by a fraud. An elite of power took control of all the most importants centers in enterprises, communes and the Republics. Their only purpose was to keep under control the whole society for their self-interest. These former powers relations set up the premises for today's political Conflict (Author)