Rasprava o jugoslavenskoj političkoj klasi
An Essay on the Yugoslav Political Class

Summary/Abstract: The author explicates the idea of a bureaucratic system existing side by side with the constitutional system of associations and the system of real life, real interests, and a production designed to meet these needs. A society with a threefold system does not possess an adequate amount of compatibility and universality; it can therefore be logically inferred that this is the reason that the political system of socialist self-management does not function rationally. If a parallel bureaucratic system can be assumed, it can be inferred that there also exists a social and political entity that expresses the interests of the bureaucracy. This stratum, which is a product of bureaucracy and etatism, is the political class. It has at its disposal the basis of the functioning of social ownership, and that is the work surplus. Therefore the attributes of a class properly belong to that group. Yet since it is not part of the process of production it is neither efficient nor functional; it therefore is not a class in the sense of a ruling class as Marxists define it. That group is therefore only a political class. Us properties, genesis, and functions in Yugoslavia are examined by the author.

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