Chernobyl and the first ecological movements in Yugoslavia: a report from Ljubljana’s Marxist Center

Ecological movements in Yugoslavia are an almost entirely unexplored topic. I wanted to make a small contribution to this less discussed question with a chronological outline of such movements, prepared in 1987 by the Marxist Center of the Slovenian Central Committee in Ljubljana (my own research concerns the history of these Marxist centers, whose outline …

Is China entering Tito’s 1974 moment? A note on China and Yugoslavia

How could Yugoslav Marxist centers be relevant to understanding the development of today's China? I've just noticed some surprising parallels between what's going on in China and my own research on Yugoslavia, which I hope might help shed some new and unforeseen light on recent events. Namely, China's recent rise to power had been accompanied …

Unfree Labor, from Hanoi to Belgrade: Chinese investment and Labor Dispatch in the Case of 750 Workers from Vietnam

*Please consider the original version of the article for bibliography and referencing (available here). This article represents the first attempt to tackle China’s labor dispatch in Serbia. It shows how its institutionalization in both Serbia and China followed increasing Sino-Serbian relations and Chinese investment. It then traces the increase of dispatching practices to November 2018 …

Research on Marxist centers in Yugoslavia

If you have been following this blog, you surely know about the Marxist research centers in Yugoslavia. Now I wanted to see if I could extend the research to the rest of Yugoslavia, as time and resources allow. And for that I would need help. Since there are admittedly no institutions that have an interest …

A Yugoslav in the Frankfurt School?

I planned on writing an essay on the reception of the 20th century Marxist economist Henryk Grossman in Yugoslavia. This includes researching the persons who translated him – Mara Fran and Veselin Masleša. Masleša is usually depicted as a Yugoslav war hero: a press was named after him, streets carry his name, etc. But what …

“Kapital iz sveta” – druga strana Slobodana Miloševića

Kapital iz sveta doprineo bi povećanju naše produktivnosti i efikasnosti. Međutim, primitivan strah od 'eksploatacije' koji nam je servirala birokratija (i sama na niskom stepenu obrazovanja i kulture), učinio je da smo se klonili onih oblika angažovanja inostranog kapitala koji je, svojim aktivnim dejstvom, mogao bitno uticati na kvalitet našeg privređivanja i visok tehnološki nivo. …

Čas anatomije: KPJ – od nade do beznađa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rorgeh8h1tA Postoje datumi u istoriji civilizacije koji postanu jubileji i postoje datumi i događaji kojima vreme ne dodeljuje status jubileja jer se sećanje na njih tradicionalno ne proslavlja. Osnivanje Komunističke partije Jugoslavije pripada toj grupi događaja koji se više ne doživljavaju kao jubilej. Delimično zato što Jugoslavije odavno nema, a delom i zbog toga što …

Kritika građanskog antifašizma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aY1qQmobyo 7.5.2016. od 19 do 21h, Kino Europa, Zagreb 9. Subversive festival „Politike prijateljstva“ Sudjeluju: Dragan Markovina, Luka Matić, Aleksandar Matković, Žarko Puhovski, Nikola Vukobratović Moderira: Zoran Kurelić Na podlozi uvelike devastirane socijalne države desnica je posljednjih godina poduzela ofenzivu u kojoj redom zauzima političke institucije, ali i uspostavlja konzervativnu hegemoniju u društvu. U toj …

Jugoslovensko samoupravljanje i ekonomska demokratija danas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGPDqrfpgHU Snimak razgovora Aleksandra Matkovića i Petra Protića na temu "Sećanje na budućnost: jugoslovensko samoupravljanje i ekonomska demokratija danas", održanog 30. januara 2017. u Domu kulture "Studentski grad". Razgovor je bio deo ciklusa ’’Filozofiranje krize’’ u Klub-knjižari ’’Magistrala’’. Opis događaja: Kao što je u Jugoslaviji radničko samoupravljanje predstavljalo alternativu sovjetskom administrativnom socijalizmu i nadolazećoj (drakerovskoj) …