Selfmanagement as an Integral Political System

Abstract

Yugoslavia is rather widely known throughout the world as a country of workers’ councils. In the popular view, this general and rather indeterminate image is frequently taken to mean all that this country has done and undertaken in the 20-year effort to find an original approach to the solution of the specific and general problems of building a socialist society on the basis of selfmanagement. Of course, reducing the ‘Yugoslav experiment’ to workers’ councils cannot be attributed solely to insufficient knowledge or underestimation of everything that is happening in the development of this relatively small Balkan country. Other reasons would appear to be more important.