Re: Re: Structural changes in Yugoslavia

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:20 08/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
> Burford:
> >The changes in the leadership of economic institutions may suggest that in
> >class terms there was a revolt by a coalition of class forces, (certainly
> >fostered by the West) against a transitional form of oligarch capitalism
> >linked with the SPS.
>
> Kostunica:
> "Communism is falling.  It is just a matter of a few hours."
>
> Louis Proyect
> Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/


Presumably no communist would claim there was a state of communism in
Yugoslavia, since communism is a classless society, and some would add,
without markets or at least without wage labour.



What is Kostunica likely to mean by "communism"?

A state centralised economy with large firms held by a couple of hundred
people with close links to the SPS?

Or a political system in which communists are omnipresent under a different
name, and restrict the democratic opportunities of anti-communists?



I do not mean to offer some simplistic formula when I wrote of

> a transitional form of oligarch capitalism
> linked with the SPS.


I do not doubt that members of the SPS thought it was progressive and
socialist in character. It is a contradiction and a compromise with market
forces. Not perhaps the best compromise and subject to accusations of
cronyism and potential corruption.

Other forms of market socialism may have been better.

Chris Burford

London