Neposredna demokratija u monopartijskim socijalističkim državama: o minimiziranju volje naroda i paradoksima savremene politike
Direct democracy in one-party socialist states on minimizing the will of people and the paradox of the contemporary politics

Summary/Abstract: The 20th century authoritarian socijalist states developed an atypical vision of the government by the people, that actually had antidemocratic attributions or, more precisely, it appropriated the real will of the people. A distinct model of government – we label it as communal democracy – was preferred within a soviet model of government. This type of government has had underlined totalitari an characteristics. The concept of the radical socijalist democracy was not based on the principles of the private property and individualism propagated by liberal democracy, but on the collective property and the system of the socijalist workers’ selfgovernment, which had the attributions of the direct political participation. According to the theorists of radical socialism the economic sphere of life was the cause of the oppression of the working class and all inequity in society, so they believed in the success in their effort to democratize economic sphere of life by applying specific instruments of direct and indirect political participation. Actually, socijalist states that – to a certain level - adopted model of market socialism ensured significantly better provisions to articulate the true will of the people, and apply direct democracy. Thus socijalist ideology and socijalist regimes do not have a single attitude towards direct democracy, the use of its instruments, and the decision making based on the direct political participation of the people.

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