Tito

[4thInter]

what form of government did Tito believe in?:confused:

[jookyle]

Tito believed in a form of government in which he was the controller of. No matter how much 'socialist rhetoric' he espoused the policies were nothing even close to socialism. Hell, Tito even said unemployment was okay. Not to mention the works of Marx and Lenin were banned in most cases. The system was fueled by nationalism and foreign investment.

[Brutus]

Workers self-management was little more than self managed exploitation. Yugoslavia was in massive debt to the west. There is nothing whatsoever worth supporting.

[Durruti's friend]

Basically what Brutus said. Yugoslavia was in debt to the west, and got in a severe recession when it had to pay them off in the 1980s. The "workers' self-management" policy was just a way of managing capital and wasn't even controlled by the workers in any meaningful way. The top management posts in the industry were held almost exclusively by Party members.


Not to mention the works of Marx and Lenin were banned in most cases.
Now this isn't true. Marx' and Lenin's works were massively published in Yugoslavia.

[goalkeeper]

I'm sure he believed that he believed in some sort of workers managed socialism (he was in Russia at the time of the revolution, joined the Communist party upon returning home, led the partisans). What he believed however is irrelevant - social relations of capitalism persisted.