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6.    The idea of workers self-management has given a new offensive strategy to the worKers movement in highiy deveioped countries, which annough nor luily deveioped at the moment, means a decisive break with a certain passivity that meant waiting tor the forces of the Third World or tor the Soviet army to free Europę. This offensive strategy shows itself in the convergence of aspirations towards self-manage-ment as well among workers as among the intellectual proletariat. It is regrettabie that those two factors have not yet found a correspond-ing synchronization in their ideas and actions, and thus the workers movement is still under the influence of dogmatism, while the intellectual movement is intluenced by »gauchism«, radical »leftism« with-out a ciearly detined goal or strategy (which would link it morę close-ly to the workers movement) in spite of the ideological backwardness of the ieadership of some Communist parties.

7.    There is a growing awareness among the Marxist intellectual avangarde that the idea of seli-management is the keystone in the forming of an offensive strategy, and does not care very much about the never-ending attacks against it by the bureaucratic leaderships, some of whom in the socialist błock even morę and morę openly try to rehabilitate Stalinism, the continuous attacks not being able to dimi-nish any of their convictions and morale. As before, the Marxist avan-garde knows that the historical truth is on its side, and that it is their responsibility to bring about a harmony between contemporary socia • lism and the most progressive aspirations of contemporary mankind.

Without any exaggeration, we can maintain that many political, scientific and humamstic-philosophical reasons in Europę are favour-able to self-managing socialism. These reasons are so strong that they could not be shaken eventually by a complete failure of the Yugoslav sell-managing socialism. In this regard, we can paraphrase a well-known situation: as the »truth about Stalin« could not shatter the be-lief in socialism, but only posed the question about its content and goals in a morę delinite way, so the »truth about Yugoslav workers seli-management« cannot shatter the belief in workers self-management, but can only raise ąuestions about the modes of its realization. But, are we today in a position to give the »truth about Yugoslav workers self-management«, i. e., do we command a broad enough historical perspective to visualize ciearly its »good and bad points«, that which should be rejected and that which should be kept, both in our country and in other countries that will work on its realization? it seems that some problems have by now become elear and oblige us to define them ciearly for the benefit of others and ours as well.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE CONCEPT OF SELF-MANAGEMENT?

Evidently the principles on which it is based are not wrong; that man as the producer has the right to make decisions about the results of his work, that the State cannot appropriate and dispose of the work surplus, that the right to manage an enterprise is shared by all workers and employees who work in it. Its shorteomings might only be the modes of its realization and that it had not been worked out in detail.

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