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»from« and not »for« politics. The Communist League of Yugoslavia tends, among others, to abolish politics as a profession but how can this be achieved when those who live from politics and to whom it is a continuing source of income are expected to make such decisions? The action of associated producers has not been, therefore, hindered only by the fact that self-management lacks resources for an exten-sive reproduction, its materiał basis thus being restricted, but it is also politically restricted: associated producers are insignificantly repres-ented in managing bodies outside their factories. Consequently, self-management has been restricted to factories, and it is continued to be restricted to actions within factories themselves. In contrast to the restricted space for action of the working class stands the great power of the State and other organizations, materiał and political power.

Our present condition is as follows: it is not the associated workers who decide about the existential issues of their own State but it is the other way round - it is the state which decides about these issues of the disunited producers’ associations, restricted within their factories. Only when associated workers will have been offered a chance to spell out what they really want from their own state, how much of the »state« they need, and what state they desire, when the State will be under a strict control of associated workers, it will then be possible to remove the discrepancy between words and deeds, and carry out reforms.

This reform cannot be conducted in such a manner that workers keep applauding for some ten years to the reform at their meetings, keep offering it their support, and yet being unable to make a single decision that would oblige the »responsible« officials for the imple-mentation of that decision.

The real chances for action on the part of associated workers have been mainly restricted, for the time being, to the »backing« of the institutions and individuals who really want the reform and struggle for the materialization of its concepts and goals. To enable workers to exceed that limit, it appears that economic measures are insufficient for the economy to provide it with larger materiał resources; some political measures will be necessary (they are possibly morę important at this moment) to enable workers to play an important role in de-cision-making regarding the reform, and to control the implementa-tion of these measures. Practically, this means that the political system should develop in such a way that workers win some decisive positions outside their workers’ councils, too — in the Federal Assembly, republic and communal assemblies. In short, the fundamental concept of evo-lution of our political sytem should be self-management viewed as an integral system which is naturally dominated by associated workers from workers’ councils onto the Federal Assembly.

But much hesitation has been manifested in this regard, even among the top leaders of the Yugoslav Communist League. Such vacillations or as E. Kardelj put it, »misunderstandings of some fundamental issues«, have been and partly still are the source of inefficacy with regard to the implementation of the reform. It is historically untrue that concepts have been elear, that there has been no doubt about

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