Wolfman wrote:Um... bull. I know that under Tito the companys were owned, managed, and run by the workers. There was no admin to speak of (other then maybe elected personnel), and no one 'stole' from the company in some organized way. Socialist Yugoslavia was also called almost every name in the book by the Kremlin. And the term "Titoism" applies better then Socialism anyways. Look up 'Titoist Yugoslavia' on Wikipedia.
While I regret being unable to study Yugoslavia further due to the relative scarcity of sources in English and my poor grasp of the language in the old country, I thought it was amusing that almost every member of my family who lived in former Yugoslavia vindicated Bosnjak's claim about being able to steal a certain amount of goods produced. While he may have... crudely phrased it, making it seem like some kind of official system, I think it is not entirely unbelievable that hush-hush deals existed between workers and their managers in terms of how much stuff could be taken. As far as I understand, everyone was rather unhappy at the fact that they were being paid so crap.
Most of my family also says the worker-control thing was bullshit for any important industry
Of course, I dont have any scholarly evidence so it may just be a bunch of opinions and my family just might be particularly prone to stealing produced goods. I just thought it was amusing that my grandmother stole so many bottles of wine