The Contribution of Women to Peace and Reconciliation
The Contribution of Women to Peace and Reconciliation
The Contribution of Women to Peace and Reconciliation
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longer returned <strong>to</strong> the countryside. Young people no longer wanted <strong>to</strong><br />
stay in places where there was only hard physical work, but nothing that<br />
was important <strong>to</strong> modern people: schools, jobs, modern technology,<br />
shops, cinemas <strong>and</strong> discos.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Third Way<br />
After the collapse <strong>of</strong> relations with Stalin, the Yugoslavian Communists<br />
had <strong>to</strong> find their own way. Ti<strong>to</strong> co-founded the movement <strong>of</strong> non-aligned<br />
states, which provided Yugoslavs with still more pride in their country,<br />
<strong>and</strong> with recognition abroad, while also helping the development <strong>of</strong> the<br />
country. <strong>The</strong> recipes for reconstruction <strong>and</strong> industrialization came from<br />
the West, <strong>and</strong> enabled a growth rate which was at times higher than<br />
that <strong>of</strong> Japan.<br />
In 1950, the phase <strong>of</strong> centralism was ended, <strong>and</strong> replaced by “workers’<br />
self-management” as a home-grown type <strong>of</strong> “socialist market economy”<br />
system. A self-managed society in free association was <strong>to</strong><br />
emerge, in which the role <strong>of</strong> the state was <strong>to</strong> be restricted in the areas<br />
<strong>of</strong> economic, social, cultural <strong>and</strong> educational policy, so as <strong>to</strong> achieve the<br />
long-term goal <strong>of</strong> the “withering away <strong>of</strong> the state”. To safeguard the<br />
access <strong>of</strong> all citizens <strong>to</strong> capital, “socialized property” was introduced.<br />
<strong>The</strong> means <strong>of</strong> production were subordinated <strong>to</strong> work collectives as common<br />
property.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first crisis <strong>of</strong> the economy became visible as the development<br />
phase came <strong>to</strong> an end, <strong>and</strong> quality <strong>and</strong> competitiveness were also required,<br />
rather than merely production on a massive scale. <strong>The</strong> key positions<br />
<strong>of</strong> political <strong>and</strong> economic power remained in the h<strong>and</strong>s <strong>of</strong> the party,<br />
which thus controlled the pr<strong>of</strong>its <strong>of</strong> the enterprises. <strong>The</strong> contradiction<br />
between the party’s monopoly on political power <strong>and</strong> the proclaimed<br />
grass-roots democracy became even more obvious when workers’ selfmanagement<br />
was extended <strong>to</strong> the entire society. <strong>The</strong> time-consuming<br />
system <strong>and</strong> the dem<strong>and</strong> for uniformization, in the guise <strong>of</strong> “solidarity”,<br />
hampered the release <strong>of</strong> private initiative <strong>and</strong> the efficiency <strong>of</strong> production.<br />
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