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socialism, this bureaucrat-comprador bourgeoisie has robbedthe working people of the property originally belonging tothem. In reality, “workers’ self-government” is a system ofruthless exploitation under the domination of bureaucratcompradorcapital.Since 1950, the Tito clique has issued a series of decreesinstituting “workers’ self-government” in all state-owned factories,mines and other enterprises in communications,transport, trade, agriculture, forestry and public utilities. Theessence of “workers’ self-government” consists of handingover the enterprises to “working collectives”, with each enterpriseoperating independently, purchasing its own rawmaterials, deciding on the variety, output and prices of itsproducts and marketing them, and determining its own wagescale and the division of part of its profits. Yugoslav decreesfurther stipulate that economic enterprises have the right tobuy, sell or lease fixed assets.In the enterprises under “workers’ self-government”,ownership is described by the Tito clique as “a higher formof socialist ownership”. They assert that only with “workers’self-government” can one “really build socialism”.This is sheer deception.Theoretically speaking, as anyone with a slight knowledgeof Marxism knows, slogans like “workers’ self-government”and “factories to the workers” have never been Marxist slogansbut slogans advanced by anarchist syndicalists, bourgeoissocialists and old-line opportunists and revisionists.The theory of “workers’ self-government” and “factories tothe workers” runs counter to the fundamental Marxist theoryof socialism. It was completely refuted by the classical Marxistwriters long ago.As Marx and Engels pointed out in the Communist Manifesto,“The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, bydegrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instrumentsof production in the hands of the State. . . .”155