НОВЕ КОНЦЕПЦИЈЕ И ИДЕЈЕ O ЛОКАЛНОЈ САМОУПРАВИ
NEW CONCEPTS AND IDEAS ON LOCAL SELF-RULE

Summary/Abstract: In the situation of fast growth of cities, particularly big cities, in the conditions when by the, end of the century the greatest majority will dwell in big cities, regardless of the social system, in the conditions when closed communities are dissapearing — one of the greatest problems of contemporary mankind is the search for the new concepts of organizing local communities and local self-rule suited for living in the industrial and postindustrial society. Academy member Jovan Đorđević, .as one of the founders of the Yugoslav theory of local self-rule in conditions of the development of socialist self-management, with his new ideas and concepts — the open community, direct democracy and the responsible society — has greatly contributed to the solving of questions not only regarding the possibilities of the existence of local communities, but has given sufficient elements for the solution of the question of haw to organize them. Đorđević points to, and proves in all his theoretical opus regarding local self-rule, particularly in his theory and practice of the commune and communal system, that only in socialism with the positive elimination of private property and the elimination of -the „dual” character of power — that there are created real predispositions for the development of local self- rule and the new local communities,.but at the same time points out that without the development of local self-rule and local communities it is not possible to form socialism as a new- humanism

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