Anyone here care much about Yugoslavia? I’m pretty interested at the moment, namely because:
- worker self management seems rad
- pretty cool multiethnic state that balanced minority rights, regional autonomy, and party oversight pretty well
- a bit like a red precursor of the EU
- property law was radically different and separated nominal ownership (pretty much all the state) from use rights (enterprises etc) in basically the same way old English common land did
- choosing industrial democracy over political democracy doesn’t seem like a bad choice at all
Turns out I didn’t see this reply at the time, but: yes! The focus on individuals blinds us to the processes. I’ve an interest in the splits that occurred that we’re talking about here and I honestly have no idea what forces out there in the world could have led to them: the Great Man approach is blinding.
On that note… any idea what a good not-Great Man book covers this kind of thing?