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Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia

The course of dissent in the East European socialist states is so marked by constraints and failures that discussion of these regimes invokes metaphors of captivity, alienation, and total powerlessness, even among those of their inhabitants who have been most anxious for political and social change. In such conditions, private sorrows and small satisfactions replace public consciousness, and solidarity is limited to those who share intimate situations. Each level of social existence indicates a dependency so absolute, so disintegrative, so demoralizing as “to make the everyday life of the working population a veritable hell.” Individuals are intimidated from engaging in any collective, contentious form of social action; peasants are limited in their land tenure and farm management by decisions that are made at a distant government center;