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ed and to institutions that have been developed. The conservation of the existing system must not be permitted, nor should its creators be allowed to enjoy it contentedly, instead of making it possible for re-volution to continue. For these reasons, the »critique of everything existing« in socialism must not be the privilege only of philosophers and theoreticians, but rather be adopted as the necessary method of work on the realization of socialist ideas and objectives.

Last but not least, it is necessary to examine the degree to which the original ideas of socialism are present in Yugoslav society in generał (rather than merely in the established system). The presence of these ideas should be the basie revolutionary force and a guarantee that the socialist revolution shall not be stopped in a conserved regime. In order to find an answer to this query, it is necessary to carry out a large-scale empirical investigation which would encompass all strata of the population for the purpose of finding out about the unknown called »public opinion« with respect to the ideas of socialism and the possibilities of their realization in Yugoslav society. A plausible hypo-thesis which still remains to be proved, is as follows: The ideas of socialism - equality, self-managemnt, and free association, above all - are present in the consciousness of Yugoslavs of all social strata and of all generations. This has so far been most clarly demonstrated in the naturę of dissatisfaction, which has most frequently been express-ed not largely because of the Iow standard of living, but because the objectives of socialism have not been achieved, even in the cases when the expression of dissatisfaction was provoked by economic factors. (For example, even though workers' strikes were usually provoked by their Iow income and the fact that they were not given the promised fuli wages, these strikes are predominantly an expression of dissatisfaction with respect to the workers’ inability to exercise their rights within the existing self-managing structure; on an individual level also, workers complain morę about the great social differences than about Iow incomes). A typical demonstration of »socialist dissatisfaction: were the student demonstrations in June of 1968.³⁴

If the above hypothesis is shown to be correct, one may conclude that Yugoslav socialism has a perspetive. The goal, however, can be reached only if a morę radical attitude is adopted toward the results that have been achieved, in order to preserve the purity of the socialist revolution. Opinions expressed in this article should also be treated as an attempt of a radical re-examination of the situation, which is the condition necessary for its overcoming.

^,4 It is, thcrcforc, very important to notc the diffcrencc bctwccn all these kiiids of »creative dissatisfaction* which are stimulating for socialism, on one hand, and other forms of dissatisfaction, on the other. The lattcr forms of dissatisfaction havc nothing in common with socialism; these are dissalisfactions causcd by unfulfillcd ambitions with respect to high positions and !ucrativc careers, or thosc due to the failure to become even richer and equal the Europcan standard of^ living, while paying no attention to people who have a sub-human standard of living.

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