Self-governing Socialism: A Reader. Volume 2: Sociology and Politics; Economics

An anthology of contemporary Korean fiction including:'The Wife and Children';'The Post Horse Curse';'Mountains';'Kapitan Ri';'The Winter'; and'A Dream of Good Fortune'. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Part III Sociology and Politics......Page 4 Part IV Economics......Page 5 PART III Sociology and Politics......Page 8 Introduction: 1. The Sociology of Workers' Self-management. RUDI SUPEK......Page 10 2. Elements for a Sociology of Self-management. HENRI LEFEBVRE......Page 21 3. Three Paths to Self-management. GEORGES GURVITCH......Page 27 4. The Possibility of Other Models of Socialism. ROGER GARAUDY......Page 36 5. The Idea of Direct Self-managing Democracy and Socialization of Policy-making. NAJDAN PASIC......Page 41 6. The Two Fundamental Principles of Self-government. YVON BOURDET......Page 48 7. Forms and Intensity of Participation in Yugoslav Self-management. BOGDAN DENITCH......Page 52 8. Organization as an Intermediary Between the Individual and Society: The Democratic and Humanitarian Form of Organization. RUDI SUPEK.......Page 56 9. The Typology of Systems of "Participation" J. Y. TABB and A. GOLDFARB......Page 68 10. Workers' Self-management in Yugoslavia. GERRY HUNNIUS......Page 71 11. Participation and Influence. JOSIP ZUPANOV......Page 83 12. The Self-management System in Yugoslav Enterprises. JANEZ JEROVSEK......Page 95 13. Problems of Participatory Democracy. VELJKO RUS......Page 108 14. Strategy for Labor. ANDRE GORZ......Page 119 15. Workers' Power. SERGE MALLET......Page 129 16. The Trade Union as Opposition. KEN COATES and TONY TOPHAM......Page 134 PART IV Economics......Page 140 1. Identifying the Participatory Economy. JAROSLAV VANEK......Page 142 2. Self-management, Oligarchy, and Proprietary Socialism. MARIO ZANARTU......Page 148 3. Social Ownership-Collective and Individual. ALEKSANDER BAJT......Page 158 4. The Labor-managed Enterprise. BRANKO HORVAT......Page 171 5. Balancing Environmental Requirements and Personal Needs Through an Organizational Structure. ICHAK ADIZES......Page 184 6. Economic Units in Yugoslav Enterprises. GUDRUN LEMAN......Page 197 7. Industrial Efficiency under Managerial versus Cooperative Decision-making: A Comparative Study of Manufacturing Enterprises in Israel. SEYMOUR MELMAN......Page 210 8. Economic Efficiency and Workers' Self-management. MITJA KAMUSlC......Page 228 9. Does Self-management Approach the Optimum Order? Comments on Professor Kamusic's Paper. JAN TINBERGEN......Page 232 10. On the Theory of the Labor-managed Firm. BRANKO HORVAT......Page 236 11. The Illyrian Firm. BENJAMIN WARD......Page 248 12. The Firm, Monetary Policy, and Property Rights in a Planned Economy. SVETOZAR PEJOVICH......Page 268 13. Plan and Market in Yugoslavia. DEBORAH MILENKOVITCH......Page 279 14. The Trial and Error Procedure in a Socialist Economy. OSKAR LANGE and FRED M. TAYLOR......Page 289 15. The Pricing of Factors of Production. BRANKO HORVAT......Page 301 16. An Institutional Model of a Self-managed Socialist Economy. BRANKO HORVAT......Page 314 Notes on the Editors......Page 336 The revival of the idea of participatory democracy, when conceived in its elaborated form, is not at all the revival of a Utopian vision of the human community, but becomes a certain social necessity in a society in which the functional complexity of production favors the growth of an alienated, centralized, and bureaucratic form of power over people, the reduction of the decision making role of people as producers and consumers in social organizations, and the crippling of the role of citizens and civic responsibility in society in general. Today, against the very powerful and forceful tendencies striving to establish final authority over man and society, similarly powerful tendencies are arising in the direction of a true democracy; nevertheless, neither the workers' movement nor progressive circles have yet clarified many conceptions about how best to eliminate the danger that threatens human freedom and the dignity of the human personality. -from the Introduction to the Volume by Rudi Supek