An analysis of the Yugoslav socialist system

• Author: Endri Papajorgji, Greta Alikaj
• Position: Tirana Business University - Ministry of Tourism of Albania
• Pages: 47-51

ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 1

Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania March 2015

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An analysis of the Yugoslav socialist system

Dr. (PhD Uni Graz) Endri Papajorgji

Tirana Business University

Msc. Greta Alikaj

Ministry of Tourism of Albania

Abstract

e Socialist Yugoslav Federation established from 1951 to 1990 introduced the so-called system

of “social ownership”. While in the system of planned economy, private property was negated

from “means of production”, in the economic system of self-management of workers (Yugoslav

Federation) an object (thing) that was in social property had no owner. In Yugoslavia, from 1974-

1990, the “Basic organization of associated labor” was the institution which met the needs of the

economic system of self-management and social property. e “Basic organization of associated

labor” was dened in Article 14 of the Yugoslav Constitution from 1974 as “a workers union, in

which workers fulll directly or equally their social-, economic- and self-administering rights, and

decide on issues dealing with the socio-economic situation of the organization”. Based on Article

463 of the law “On associated labor” from 1976, this organization consisted of the Council of

Workers, which was also the central- and the decision-making body responsible for all economic-,

nancial-, and administrative issues. e Executive Council was the executive body of this

organization and the Council of Directors was the Supervisory Board talking in the denitions of

commercial legislation (Höcker-Weyand, 1980, 81). In this sense, main objective of this article is to

analyze the Yugoslav socialist economic system in a legal-, socio-, economic approach.

Keywords: Yugoslavia, social property, Self administration of workers, Basic organization of

associated labor, Economy.

Introduction

Aer the end of World War negotiations were undertaken with the aim of uniting

Yugoslavia. A “Yugoslav Committee” of politicians from Croatia and Slovenia led the

negotiations with the Serbian government. ere were many divergences, but on 20.07.1917

the so-called “Corfu Declaration” about the Union of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia was

proclaimed with the aim of establishing a democratic parliamentary monarchy based on

the self-determination of peoples (Calić, 2010, 79).

e diverse political, social and economic problems of the country, however, were not

solved by the new government (Boškovska, 2009, 74). On 6.1.1929 King Alexander I

therefore annulled the 1921 Constitution and dissolved the (Skupstina-Parliament). e

Constitution of 28.06.1921 (the so-called Vidovdan Constitution) stated in Article 26 that:

„the State, (...) has the right and duty according to the law in the interest of the Community

to intervene in the economic relations of citizens, with the objective of justice and equity of

social injustice. “

e concept of property was dened in Article 37 of the Constitution. It was stated that