Word: yugoslavic
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...which tended implicitly to be identified with certain economic and social welfare programs associated with Western social democracy (state ownership of industry, free medical care). Much less evident was an identification of socialism, as actual economic and social programs, with Marxism-Leninism; rather, Marxism-Leninism was identified with ideology. Yugoslav surveys in 1960 and 1965 indicate that in each case about three-fourths of the sample ex- pressed a "completely positive or partly positive attitude towards the fundamental elements of the system." No information was given, however, with respect to what constituted the "fundamental elements of the system...
...Yugoslav survey previously cited provides an analysis of student attitudes which, with some modifications, might well be applicable to all of the communist countries of Eastern Europe. It distinguishes three groups of students according to their political behavior: 1) a not very numerous group of young enthusiasts, "who are exercising their desire to change social relations in a progressive [i.e., ideologically approved] direction through countless forms of concrete and just activity"; 2) a somewhat larger group characterized by "conformist adaptation," who give priority to their own personal interests; and 3) a much larger group whose political behavior is distinctly reserved...
...irresponsibility." Pouring scorn on the intellectuals as people who do not care about labor and productivity, he asked a group of workers: "Do you pay attention only to commas and full stops, or is there something else in which you are interested?" Actually, Tito is about the only Yugoslav who speaks anything approaching a national language. He goes to some length to be understood everywhere, peppers his speech with local idioms and intonations. In whatever language, his blast last week was a clear warning that he will not allow words to interfere with work...
...partners will receive no legal ownership status-not even a seat on the often obstreperous workers' councils, which have been known to vote themselves unconscionable wage increases. As far as a voice in management goes, investors can lay down policy guidelines when they sign initial contracts with individual Yugoslav companies; thereafter they will be pretty much limited to keeping unofficial advisers at the Yugoslavian managers' elbows...
...that, many Westerners are eager to make use of Yugoslavia's cheap labor and get in on the growing East European market for Western goods. Several Swedish firms have announced that they are looking for Yugoslav partners "on the condition that business risk be shared, as well as profits." West Germany's Volkswagen is so anxious to set up an assembly plant with Yugoslavia's Dalmaciya Auto that it is offering a full 49% of the necessary cash as investment capital under the code and the remaining 51% as a long-term loan...