So, as is well known, Yugoslavia had a large experiment in worker self-management that was largely successful.
It is also well known that Yugoslavia needed to have market reform to fix it's economy.
But having a market doesn't mean having bosses. It is conceivable that Yugoslavia could have made the market reforms, while keeping worker self-management as a requisite for doing business. This would technically still be socialism even for Marxists as Marx defined Capitalism as a mode of production (selling your labor and the the product thereof for less than it's exchange value to a boss) and not as a mode of distribution (the Market).
What are the likely ramifications of a system of self-managed free enterprise in Yugoslavia? Assuming that it doesn't tear itself apart in ethnic strife that is.
It is also well known that Yugoslavia needed to have market reform to fix it's economy.
But having a market doesn't mean having bosses. It is conceivable that Yugoslavia could have made the market reforms, while keeping worker self-management as a requisite for doing business. This would technically still be socialism even for Marxists as Marx defined Capitalism as a mode of production (selling your labor and the the product thereof for less than it's exchange value to a boss) and not as a mode of distribution (the Market).
What are the likely ramifications of a system of self-managed free enterprise in Yugoslavia? Assuming that it doesn't tear itself apart in ethnic strife that is.