#nezamjenjivi tito

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The Yugoslavian Way, 1958

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The Yugoslavian Way, 1958

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"The Soviet Union is a socialist country; it is the result of the great October Revolution; and it is just for that reason that not only the Communist parties, but also all ol the progressive forces in the world look upon this socialist country with sympathy and respect. This sympathy and this respect is therefore entirely justified. But if they try to transform the sympathy and the unlimited confidence which has existed and still exists for the Soviet Union among progressive people In the entire world into blind submission through orders from Moscow issued by the leaders of tne Communist Party (Bolshevik) of the USSR, then inevitably enormous damage is done to the progressive movement in the world, and in the last analysis, to the Soviet Union itself, because the USSR inevitably loses prestige in the process."

Josip Tito Broz, December 30th, 1950

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Josip Tito In an Interview By Kalamesh Banerji, Late 1950

I asked: “How do you explain the hostility of Russia toward socialist Yugoslavia on a Marxist basis? Any antagonism between socialist states is not consistent with Marxist theory. Does it mean that Marxism is wrong? Or, if not, that the USSR has ceased being a socialist state and that the Soviet bureaucratic caste has become a class?”

I knew very well that the ruling clique in the Soviet Union is considered by all good Marxists outside the official Communist parties as a bureaucracy, which has the monopoly of all powers and privileges in the country, but in their view, it is not a class of private proprietors.

Marshall Tito replied: “This is an interesting question and I will begin from the end. Undoubtedly, the bureaucratic caste has taken hold in the Soviet Union and is now governing the country. This doesn’t mean that Marxism is wrong, but that the Soviet leaders have deviated from the science of Marx and Lenin, regarding relations between socialist countries. The character of the hostility of the Soviet Union towards Yugoslavia is not the same as that between socialist and capitalist countries.

“It is a hostility of a caste towards a socialist country and not the hostility of the people of the Soviet Union. That caste became infuriated when a socialist country resisted its attempts at economic subjugation. The domination by this caste is not a class phenomenon as yet. The USSR is a socialist country regardless of the mistakes its leadership is making.”

According to Marxian economy, the labor expended on a commodity determines its value. Since the productivity varies between backward and advanced countries, Russia is exploiting the undeveloped countries by demanding the same world prices for buying and selling’. Russia, being the first socialist country, demands heavy sacrifice from other socialist states. Marshal Tito then passed on to characterize the Russian policy as “imperialist,” which he would never have done even one year ago.

“This caste,” continued Tito, “has introduced elements into the relations of the socialist countries, which are not unknown in the capitalist world.

“For example, the trade of the Soviet Union With the socialist countries is carried on a purely capitalist basis. They sell as high as possible and buy as cheaply as they can, trying to get as much as possible from socialist countries under the pretext of strengthening the international working class movement by helping the first country of socialism. Actually this means helping one imperialist country since Soviet foreign policy deviated completely from the right path – a path which consists of all-out aid to a small socialist country and noninterference in the affairs of other countries.”

Via Marxists.org

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This also finally got Tito on board about pop and rock music!

Eternal solidarity , peace and friendship for ex-Yugo countries and Mexico ! For one brief , silly, bright moment, things didn't suck and we as humans felt like one.

i randomly bring this up to people once in 2 years just to remind them love is universal