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Mises was right : Yugoslav workers' self-management

Mises was right : Yugoslav workers' self-management John H. Moore0 1. Introduction Mises did not directly address workers' self-management in the form it took in Yugoslavia. He dismissed its rough equivalent, syndicalism, abruptly in two of his major works, Socialism 1 and Liberalism,2 saying that "No one who is in any way to be taken seriously advocates either one [periodic redistribution of property or syndicalism]."3 He wrote, of course, before Josip Broz had become Tito. Tito himself did not literally advocate syndicalism or even workers' selfmanagement, per se, Yugoslav workers' self-management was "invented" out of the political necessity of differentiating Yugoslavia from the Soviet Union and the CMEA countries after Yugoslavia was expelled from the Cominform4. The system that was adopted in Yugoslavia superficially has some of the characteristics of what Mises meant by syndicalism: the vesting of ownership "...in the workers employed in each industry or branch of production."5 This definition of Mises is not identical to workers' self-management, since it does not necessarily Professor, George Mason University. 1 am indebted to Svetozar Pejovich for helpful comments and suggestions on a earlier draft of this paper. Responsibility for errors is mine. George Mason University. This article was written before the declarations of independence by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines de Gruyter

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de Gruyter
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2194-5799
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John H. Moore0 1. Introduction Mises did not directly address workers' self-management in the form it took in Yugoslavia. He dismissed its rough equivalent, syndicalism, abruptly in two of his major works, Socialism 1 and Liberalism,2 saying that "No one who is in any way to be taken seriously advocates either one [periodic redistribution of property or syndicalism]."3 He wrote, of course, before Josip Broz had become Tito. Tito himself did not literally advocate syndicalism or even workers' selfmanagement, per se, Yugoslav workers' self-management was "invented" out of the political necessity of differentiating Yugoslavia from the Soviet Union and the CMEA countries after Yugoslavia was expelled from the Cominform4. The system that was adopted in Yugoslavia superficially has some of the characteristics of what Mises meant by syndicalism: the vesting of ownership "...in the workers employed in each industry or branch of production."5 This definition of Mises is not identical to workers' self-management, since it does not necessarily Professor, George Mason University. 1 am indebted to Svetozar Pejovich for helpful comments and suggestions on a earlier draft of this paper. Responsibility for errors is mine. George Mason University. This article was written before the declarations of independence by

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Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines – de Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 1991

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