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estoration of the landlords and capitalists, to the restorationof capitalism.” 1The path taken by Yugoslavia in agriculture during thepast ten years and more is precisely the path of restoringcapitalism.All these are indisputable facts.We would like to ask those who are bent on reversing theverdict on the Tito clique: Unless it is your intention to deceive,how can you assert that there are no capitalists in Yugoslavia?THE DEGENERATION OF SOCIALIST ECON-OMY OWNED BY THE WHOLE PEOPLEINTO CAPITALIST ECONOMYThe restoration of capitalism in Yugoslavia manifests itselfnot only in the fact that private capitalism is spreading freelyboth in the cities and in the countryside. Still more important,the “public” enterprises, which play a decisive role in theYugoslav economy, have degenerated.The Tito clique’s economy of “workers’ self-government”is state capitalism of a peculiar kind. It is not state capitalismunder conditions of the dictatorship of the proletariat butstate capitalism under conditions in which the Tito clique hasturned the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorshipof the bureaucrat-comprador bourgeoisie. The means of productionof the enterprises under “workers’ self-government”do not belong to one or more private capitalists but to thenew type of bureaucrat-comprador bourgeoisie of Yugoslavia,which includes the bureaucrats and managers and which theTito clique represents. Usurping the name of the state, dependingon U.S. imperialism and disguising itself under the cloak of1J. V. Stalin, “Speech Delivered at the First All-Union Congress ofCollective-Farm Shock Brigaders”, Works, Eng. ed., FLPH, Moscow,1955, Vol. XIII, p. 248.154