In a message dated 98-03-30 21:37:03 EST, you write:
<< Titoist Yugoslavia was not a command economy, but the
classic example of a market sociaist economy, with all the
faults and virtues therein. The current regime in the rump
state has become more of a command economy as a result of
the regional wars, even as it has become arguably more
democratic. >>
I understand the irony and the classic economic typology of Yugoslavia
as a socialist market system. I would argue that the traditional
economic typology should be opposed and is inimical to any political
future
for the socialist project. On principle, I don't think socialists should
label any system (social system, I adhere the classic critique that
economics arbitrarily severs the economic from the political) as socialist
unless is takes democratic input at many levels including at a national level,
in the traditional sense. (Sorry to distract from the Kosovo thread).
