Yugoslav revolutionary who designed the economic theory of workers' self-management
In a speech on the eve of introducing self-management, he declared that the working masses must 'have their say directly and daily, and not only by way of the vanguard of their political parties.'
A Slovene Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman who was a chief organizer of the Slovene Liberation Front and Partisan resistance during the Second World War. After serving as the first prime minister of Slovenia, he became the key economic theorist who, following the Tito-Stalin split of 1948, designed Yugoslavia's turn from Soviet-style central planning to workers' self-management. His 1951 'Theses on the Economy of the Transitional Period' acknowledged that commodity production and the law of value continue to operate under socialism, a critique of Soviet state-socialism that provided the theoretical justification for Yugoslavia's separate road.
Career Timeline
- 1941–1945Political Secretary of the Slovene Liberation Front and Political Commissar of the Partisan General Staff
- 1945–1946First Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Slovenia
- 1946–1953Chair of the Federal Economic Council and Minister of Industry of Yugoslavia
- 1947–1952Chief architect and executor of the First Five-Year Plan
- 1948–1953Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia