Chief theoretician of workers' self-management and Tito's closest ideological collaborator
If the workers' parties drown in parliamentarism, everything is done for.
A Slovene communist leader and the chief theoretician of Titoism, he was the principal architect of Yugoslavia's system of workers' self-management. At the founding conference of the Cominform in 1947, he joined Milovan Đilas in delivering the sharpest criticism of the French and Italian Communist Parties for their 'parliamentary illusions' and failure to seize power in 1944–45. After the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, he theorized a decentralized self-management model distinct from Soviet state socialism and, as the main author of the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution, greatly expanded the autonomy of the republics. He remained a central figure in Yugoslavia's collective leadership until his death in 1979, and his constitutional ideas left traces in the successor states after the federation's dissolution.
Career Timeline
- 1937–1941Leadership of the Communist Party of Slovenia
- 1941–1945Leadership of the Slovenian Liberation Front and Partisans
- 1945–1953Vice President of Yugoslavia
- 1948–1953Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia
- 1963–1967President of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia
- 1974–1979Member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
- 1950년대–1970년대Architect of workers' self-management theory