Samoupravni socijalizam: konac jedne utopije
Self-Managing Socialism: The End of a Utopia

Summary/Abstract: The reasons for the failure of Yugoslavia's »third path« (socialist self-management) are to be sought in answers to the following two questions: Is there a »structural flaw« in the project itself? Was the environment in which self-management was to be implemented favourable for that approach? The »structural flaws« analyzed by the author included the definition of the enterprise as an 'organization of associated labour’ definition of management as an amateur, non-professional activity to be performed by workers, and incorrect assumptions about human motivation. The failure of socialist self-management can be explained also by inadequacies in the ideological, economic, political, social and cultural environment. The author concludes that the end of a utopian project should not necessarily mean also the end of self-management.

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