Polemic on General Line of International ... - From Marx to Mao

The Tito clique plunders the income of these enterprises byvarious means, such as the collection of taxes and interest.According to the statistics of the “Report on the Work in 1961by the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia”, it took awayabout three-quarters of the enterprises’ net income in thisway.The Tito clique seizes the fruits of the people’s labour whichit appropriates chiefly for meeting the extravagant expenses ofthis clique of bureaucrats, for maintaining its reactionary rule,for strengthening the apparatus which suppresses the workingpeople, and for paying tribute to the imperialists in the formof the servicing of foreign debts.Moreover, the Tito clique controls these enterprises throughtheir managers. The managers are nominally chosen by competitionby the enterprises but are in fact appointed by theTito clique. They are agents of the bureaucrat-compradorbourgeoisie in these enterprises.In the enterprises under “workers’ self-government”, the relationsbetween managers and workers are actually relationsbetween employers and employees, between the exploiters andthe exploited.As matters stand, the managers can determine the productionplans and the direction of development of these enterprises,dispose of the means of production, take the decisions on thedistribution of the enterprises’ income, hire or fire workersand overrule the resolutions of the workers’ councils ormanagement boards.Abundant information published in the Yugoslav pressproves that the workers’ council is merely formal, a kind ofvoting machine, and that all power in the enterprise is in thehands of the manager.The fact that the manager of an enterprise controls itsmeans of production and the distribution of its income enableshim to appropriate the fruits of the workers’ labour by meansof various privileges.157