Legitimitet socijalističkih poredaka
The Legitimacy of Socialist Systems

Summary/Abstract: Socialist systems, like in fact other types of system, aspire, among other things, to secure the support and loyalty of the population and in that way to reduce to a minimum the exertion of violence for the purpose of securing their stability. They however use radically different mechanisms to justify their power than the liberaldemocratic systems do. With the establishment of their system of domination autonomous mechanisms for the articulation of political interests are, like other things, annulled. Their role is taken over by the Communist Party acting as the privileged interpreter of the »historical« interests of the working class. Parliamentary elections and the free competition of various parties with different programs were considered by the official doctrine (»Marxism—Lininism«) to se »bourgeois formalism« or »parliamentary cretinism«. Therefore power in the systems of the Soviet type self-justifies, autolegitimizes itself without legitimizing. The historical events in a number of countries in Eastern Europe during 1989 demonstrate, however, that in most of these countries such mechanisms have been accepted without which it is impossible to prevent the burocratization of political power and, of course, to secure their democratic legitimization.

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