Revija za sociologiju, Vol. 4 No. 4, 1974.
Pregledni rad
Self-Managing Democracy in Large Town
Uroš Trbović
; Republički savjet za naučni rad SR Hrvatske, Zagreb, Amruševa 4
Sažetak
The essence of the self-managing democracy in a large town consists in the workers' self-management of the surplus labour. A town originated in the surplus of agricultural products; it was developing as an institution of the handicraft and industrial surplus labour, and consequently, the establishing of the workers' self-management by means of the surplus labour is, in fact, the original self-management with a town. A worker is no more exposed to the economic chaos being caused by the town industry privately organized. The novelty, emerging from it, has been the passing of the surplus labour from the shell of the private property (profit, income, interest) into the social, public sphere, by means of the self-managing democracy. The novelty consists in the fact that the production in towns, out of the form of wage slavery, has been transformed into the liberty in the sphere of the decision making about labour, to grow later into the practice of labour exemption. Self-decision making is considered to be a shorter way to the real labour exemption. A town is a manufacturing unit and a self-managing form of that decision making. In a self-managing town the majority of the social energy the worker-managers still spend on pushing back the capital-relationship by means of the governing of manufacturers that is being established. If methodically observed, the manufacturers have thus been introduced in the political system of self-managing. They have gained victory in the ideological forms, but they have not really governed the division of labour. Not only haven't they governed the division of labour but, it has governed them. They are forced to perform just one single social activity if they do not want to lose their life resources.
The town communities also find themselves in such a position. Each of them has a definite sphere of activity it is attached to. The change of specialized town activity would have a disastrous meaning for the rhythm of the total production; it would cause disturbances in the harmony of supply and demand and alike.
The fixation of a town to a particular economic activity necessarily causes their mutual collaboration. With the greater economic specialization in towns, the stronger mutual collaboration must be present in order to satisfy the many-sided needs of the workers and citizens. That collaboration takes place by means of the self-managing agreement as well as the social agreement, through federal and republic laws and else, which makes the content of the self-managing democracy in large towns.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
156423
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.1974.
Posjeta: 774 *