Josip Broz Tito - Gangsta's ParadisePresident of Yugoslavia and the man who shaped the 20th century.Music: https://youtu.be/_DVrDv_zJo8Footage used: -https:/...
greatest statesman of 20th century europe, just behind stalin. it is a shame that they didn’t get along. i always respected tito as an individual and as a leader, and yugoslavia was a powerful and prosperous state while he lived. unfortunately, his biggest mistake was not preparing the state for times when he would be gone. in more ways than one, he was very naive and perhaps too kind-hearted (considering how easily everything he built and achieved was picked off by western and nationalist vultures inside yugoslavia).
i had an even higher opinion of him before i started getting interested in interacting in leftist communities and his yugoslavia was close to my idea of a state i would like to live in and support. but now as i read more ML articles i cant help but admit that he could have done better. perhaps if it wasnt for the feud between him and stalin, maybe he would have stayed more true to marxism-leninism (which would definitely have safeguarded yugoslavia for much longer, rather than almost immediately decaying after his death). one could speculate how things would have looked if he supported the greek communists in the civil war (which again, he would have if it wasnt for the feud).
nevertheless, it cant be denied that while he lived, he has done great things to his people and his mistakes aside, he had the right idea. look at the balkans. before him, it was a mess. after his death, it was a mess. while he lived, there was a true power to be reckoned with.
while i previously (and perhaps still) consider myself a titoist despite never living in yugoslavia, nowadays i am searching for materials and resources on what titoism really was, and how titos “market socialism” compared to NEP or economical reforms by deng xiaoping. perhaps someone can point me to the right places?
There’s a good section on the Yugoslavian economy and worker self management in particular in “Economic Democracy: The Political Economy of Self Management and Participation” by Donald George. It is available on Libgen in scanned PDF. I’m actually working on turning it into a searchable epub at the moment.
greatest statesman of 20th century europe, just behind stalin. it is a shame that they didn’t get along. i always respected tito as an individual and as a leader, and yugoslavia was a powerful and prosperous state while he lived. unfortunately, his biggest mistake was not preparing the state for times when he would be gone. in more ways than one, he was very naive and perhaps too kind-hearted (considering how easily everything he built and achieved was picked off by western and nationalist vultures inside yugoslavia).
i had an even higher opinion of him before i started getting interested in interacting in leftist communities and his yugoslavia was close to my idea of a state i would like to live in and support. but now as i read more ML articles i cant help but admit that he could have done better. perhaps if it wasnt for the feud between him and stalin, maybe he would have stayed more true to marxism-leninism (which would definitely have safeguarded yugoslavia for much longer, rather than almost immediately decaying after his death). one could speculate how things would have looked if he supported the greek communists in the civil war (which again, he would have if it wasnt for the feud).
nevertheless, it cant be denied that while he lived, he has done great things to his people and his mistakes aside, he had the right idea. look at the balkans. before him, it was a mess. after his death, it was a mess. while he lived, there was a true power to be reckoned with.
while i previously (and perhaps still) consider myself a titoist despite never living in yugoslavia, nowadays i am searching for materials and resources on what titoism really was, and how titos “market socialism” compared to NEP or economical reforms by deng xiaoping. perhaps someone can point me to the right places?
There’s a good section on the Yugoslavian economy and worker self management in particular in “Economic Democracy: The Political Economy of Self Management and Participation” by Donald George. It is available on Libgen in scanned PDF. I’m actually working on turning it into a searchable epub at the moment.
thanks a lot, looking forward to some reading then!