Gospodarsko-politički pogledi Jurja Križanića
Economic-political views of Juraj Križanić

Summary/Abstract: Author of the paper on Juraj Križanić’s Economic and Political Views. Josip Badalić gives a short account of the economic situation in Russia of Križanić’s time on the basis of Križanić’s texts. On the whole critical view of that economy is dismal. Russian economic market — according to Križanić's report — besides its good raw material supplies, owing to poor professional equipment, and in connection with that disorganization, is too much open to the exploitation from abroad, too little productive, and even less accumulative for Russian State and nation. That is why Križanić’s economic comments and statements are in fact real convincing review of the negative economic process in the 17th century feudal Russia. Križanić is of the opinion that the regulation of that problem, to the ad¬vantage of the Russian State and society, is in the reorganisation of the Russian economic policy into centralized state economy guided and managed from the highest State post, that is to say in this Russian case, by the Czar himself. For that purpose Križanić made a systematic scheme of State managed commercial apparatus that would have to give direction and determine the function of the whole State and economic mechanism by means of the planned social production and consumption, and at the same time to be organised against unplanned production and uneconomical consumption of the Russian goods, even more so in their trade with foreign countries. Taking into account the opportunities existing in the social and political basis of the feudal Russia of that time, Križanić in his economic scheme failed to see the social and politic coordination of the contradictory inter¬class interests as a fundamental element of the re-establishment of the whole Russian society of his time, particularly removal of the economic privileges of the higher feudal ranks in behalf of the great number of the rightless people. Because of that antifeudal theory, which should be valued as one of the earliest invitations to democratize Russian feudal economy a good deal of Križanić's economic scheme may justly be considered socially progressive, at least with regard to his own time. Certain Christian humanism characterize its very nature more than any sort of economic doctrinarism. It reflected itself in his postulate of the interclass solidarity of the Russian feudal society of the 17th century and the author of the paper has decided to use term social and economic solidarity to denote Križanić's economic system.

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