"Socialist Self-Management: Yugoslav System" with Julie Mostov

Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, the sessions had to be moved online. The video and audio quality is not always consistent. We apologize for the inconvenience.
In this session Julie Mostov takes a historical view of the Yugoslav socialist self-management experiment. She gives a brief but rich account of Yugoslaivan state formation, and the post WW2 socio-cultural and political context in which the Tito-Stalin split occurred. This split had massive ramifications and motivated the search for an alternative to Soviet style command economy. The Yugoslav worker management system arose out of this complex situation. Mostov and Arato then discuss the structure of the system, critically examining its functions and limitations, and analyzing its complicated relationship to the single party political system of Yugoslavia.
Julie Mostov is Dean and Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University:
liberalstudies.nyu.edu/conten...
Andrew Arato is Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory:
www.newschool.edu/nssr/facult...
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Course information can be found here: sites.google.com/view/sociolo...
Technical Team:
Can Nuri Akin
Udeepta Chakravarty
Arya Vaghyenegar
This course is held at the New School for Social Research:
www.newschool.edu/nssr/

[@tmsupreme7763]

The biggest reason was that Tito died, but their failing economic policies and ethnic tensions also played a role

[@paiiz_574]

The biggest problem was, that tito didn't had a successor.

[@filiplazz]

@@paiiz_574 the biggest problem was that directors were to powerful so they saw an opportunity to join government officials who were too powerful as well, and to tear the system down, benefiting from privatization. Most workers didnt participate actively in the self-management decision making, as banks, directors, and the party had the last say, most of the time. We can see this by the fact that in the 1980's there was a lot of strikes. why strike if you can just vote on a different course of action by your firm? well, because you actually cant. ethnic tensions did exist, external pressures were real, economic shifts in the west of neoliberal export of industry to cheap labor areas and using the profits to build service economies and hi-tec and digital industries also tipped the balance. How can a socialist state compete? by lowering wages? well that is contradictory. capitalism won by destroying the Keynesinan compact between labor and capital.

[@janpodgornik353]

@@filiplazz A really good take!

[@thobraa]

Torn apart for NATO and the empire. All in the name of ‘freedom and democracy’. 20 years of lies in the name of war.