Radicalized by the contradiction of crushing poverty and unimaginable wealth that existed side by side during the Great Depression, socialists built institutions, organized the unemployed, extended aid to the labor movement, developed local political movements, and built networks that would remain active in the struggle against injustice throughout the twentieth century. Less well-known is the socialist revival of the 1930s. Listen to the full episode on SensibleSocialist.The early years of the twentieth century are often thought of as socialism's first heyday in the United States, when the Socialist Party won elections across the country and Eugene Debs ran for president from a prison cell, winning more than 900,000 votes. And he did have his finger on something, so that's the way I'm going to go. That's what could have, it wasn't, but it could have been taken up, and if so, it could have changed history. What is interesting is who he was, and in what particular situation he intervened, in that particular way because that's what's interesting. RICHARD WOLFF: I'm going to talk about Milovan Djilas, less about him as an individual because he isn't all that important and his work isn't all that momentous. So, how did Yugoslavia's experience in worker's self-management, to a certain degree, differ from the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China? For those who noticed the name, but maybe didn't look it up, who is Milovan Djilas, and what was his analysis of the twentieth-century social experiments in the Soviet Union and China?Īnd then given that he's from Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia had its own sort of tradition, you know, that made it different than the Soviet Union and China in terms of its attempt at some kind of worker self-management while still kind of under the rule of a powerful communist party. KEVIN GUSTAFSON: You do name-drop somebody who is maybe not as well-known to socialists and non-socialists alike, which is Milovan Djilas. In part two of this episode, Professor Richard Wolff continues with Sensible Socialist about Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, and socialist movements.
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