04000nam 2200565 450 991079860080332120230808193845.090-04-32521-210.1163/9789004325210(CKB)3710000000733065(EBL)4585076(PQKBManifestationID)16476455(PQKBWorkID)15016197(PQKB)22787760(MiAaPQ)EBC4585076(nllekb)BRILL9789004325210(EXLCZ)99371000000073306520160812h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSplendour, misery, and possibilities a x-ray of socialist Yugoslavia /by Darko Suvin ; with a foreword by Fredric JamesonLeiden, Netherlands ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :Brill,2016.©20161 online resource (450 p.)Historical Materialism Book Series,1570-1522 ;Volume 117Description based upon print version of record.90-04-30694-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Introduction: Pro Domo Sua -- Radical Emancipation and Yugoslavia: On the Founding Singularities of SFRY -- Accumulation and Its Discontents -- On Class Relationships in Yugoslavia -- On a Hidden Ruling Class and Central Conflict -- What Has Been and What Could Have Been -- 15 Theses about Communism and Yugoslavia, or the Two-Headed Janus of Emancipation through the State (Metamorphoses and Anamorphoses of ‘On the Jewish Question’ by Marx) -- The Communist Party of Yugoslavia -- Anatomy: Macro-Political Economics, or the View from Above -- Anatomy: Micro-Political Economics, or the View from the Workers -- Physiology: The Interests and Stakes behind the Macro-Events -- On the Politics of Disalienation, Inside and Outside Economic Production -- In Production: Rise and Fall of Self-Management -- In Civic Life: Dis/Alienation and Oligarchy Monolithism -- Conclusion: On Failures and Potentialities -- Bureaucracy: A Term and Concept in the Socialist Discourse about State Power (Upstream of Yugoslavia) -- The Discourse about Bureaucracy and State Power in Post-Revolutionary Yugoslavia 1945–72 -- References -- Index of Proper Names of Historical Persons.Suvin’s ‘X-Ray’ of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that between 1965– 72 there was a confused and hidden but still open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of this failure are analysed in a melding of semiotics and political history, which points beyond Yugoslavia – including its achievements and degeneration – to show how political and economic democracy fail when pursued in isolation. The emphasis on socialist Yugoslavia is at various points embedded into a wider historical and theoretical frame, including Left debates about the party, sociological debates about classes, and Marx’s great foray against a religious State doctrine in The Jewish Question .Historical materialism book series ;Volume 117.CommunismYugoslaviaHistory20th centuryYugoslaviaPolitics and government1945-1980YugoslaviaPolitics and government1980-1992YugoslaviaHistory1945-1980YugoslaviaHistory1980-1992CommunismHistory949.702/3Suvin Darko1930-214105Jameson FredricMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798600803321Splendour, misery, and possibilities3675224UNINA