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culation of State Capital (that means also the means for education of highly-specialized cadres and for the promotion of scientific and tech-nological inovations) then one of the first tasks will be the rehabili-tation of the role of the syndicates.

This is necesary because of the atomization of the workers class on the one side and the unification and alliance of the managerial and financial circles. The workers are conscious of the fact that under the conditions of the market economy their influence on the management is far less vital than the connections and »resourcefulness« of the marketing apparatus. Thus, the workers are relegated even morę to a role of passivity and subordination to the experts and directors who have the »connections«^G because these »business connections« are often the basis of their existence. The majority of »wild-cat« strikes are not aimed, as is most often maintained by the press, against the »bu-reaucratic management of the enterprise« but rather against the entire situation in which public enterprise found itself, so that the disorganization of the workers class often lends a desperate and Lud-dist appearance to the strikes (the destruction of eąuipment, violence against the directors).

If we consider that the non-functional definition of the status of business organizations (giving the status of independent self-managing organizations to retail sales organizations, in spite of the fact that our constitution contains a definition of State management which has until now been applied only to universities and meaningless organizations such as museums and public schools because the political leader-ship was morę interested in controlling the intelligentsia than in wa-tching the businessmen and bankers) brought about exploitative rela-tionship between the business organizations. At the same time they were telling the workers that we accept such events as a result of the law of supply and demand, and this brought about a loss of the feeling of unity and equality among the workers. They stressed the true spirit of market (read: capitalist) concurrence, but this necessarily gave rise to group egoism in the spirit of petty capitalist business methods. Under such conditions the impoverishment of the working class, and thereby the enrichment of the mediating classes of society has to be taken as normal phenomenon of our social system. And so our worker’s self-management began to produce instead, though it might seem pa-radoxical to those who are not acquainted with the logie of the demo-cratic-liberalistic and Proudhonistic type of self management, not a »self-managing socialism« but something quite the opposite, namely »petty-bourgeois capitalism«. (Even though this capitalism has acquir-ed forms of »big capital« as regards the concentrations of financial

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