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Article: The broom of Titoism: how developing nations are compensating for weak labor markets.
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- The International Economy
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Yugoslav strongman Josip Broz Tim died on May 4, 1980, and his funeral was witnessed by more politicians and state delegations than any other in history. Even though Marshall Tito might be dead, his ideas are alive and well.
In 1948, Tito made his mark by breaking ranks with Stalin. Moscow was quick to label Tito's form of communism revisionism. After all, the hallmark of Tito's foreign policy was the Non-Aligned Movement, which counted Tito's Yugoslavia (along with Nasser's Egypt and Nehru's India) as a founding member, and at home, Yugoslavia's unique form of decentralized "market socialism" featured worker-managed firms.
The worker-managed firm idea ...