UDRUŽENA OPOZICIJA I KOMUNISTI
UNITED OPPOSITION AND COMMUNISTS

Summary/Abstract: The United Opposition, informal association of the National Radical Party, Democratic Party and the Farmer’s League, assembled in the middle and in the second half of the thirties, the major part of Serbian democratic forces. As such, it found itself in the center of the striving of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia to unite within the frame works of the People's Front policy for the struggle against the fascism as the main adversary, all the groups of antifascist and democratic orientation. In the People's Front, if we speak only of the relations between the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the United Opposition, ought to cooperate two groups of diametrically opposed tendencies and conceptions, One communist, revolutionary, the other bourgeois, not inclined to rapid changes, particularly not to those that would lead to the dictatorship of the proletariat. At the lime when the idea of the People’s Front began to appear and the attempts were made to create it, the communists were a small, but militant, disciplined group. The United Opposition, as a hole, was at the height of its power, with the legitimacy the voters had given it on the elections of the Fifth of May, but at the same time afraid by their militant disposition. The communists wished to link these masses to them and to make them revolutionary in the „union of workers and peasants”; the parties of the United Oppositions, already seized by the process of disintegration, wished to „soothe” them and to prevent „disturbance among the people” . Without renouncing their final goal, the communists offered, in the name of the struggle against the fascism, the cooperator to the representatives of that class which they wanted to deprive of its power in the second phase of their revolution. Because they did not believe in the sincerity and durability of the communist's determination for the People's Front and did not wish, in effect, the collaboration with the ideological adversary, the United Opposition refused their offer. As a last result, the Communist Party met with failure because it did not come to an agreement with the summits of the United Opposition, but by its People's Front policy, it attracted not a little part of their adherents. For the United Opposition, however, the dispersal of the members was a constituent part of the global crisis of Serbian political parties and of the bourgeois class.

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