31/01/2026
"By turning over the factories, mines, etc., to the workers to manage, we will make it impossible for an infectious disease to take hold there, a disease bearing the name of bureaucracy. This disease is unbelievably easily and rapidly carried over from bourgeois society and it is dangerous in the transition period. Like a polyp thousands of tentacles it obstructs and impedes the correct and rapid process of development. Bureaucracy is among the biggest enemies of socialism precisely because it insinuates itself unnoticed into all the pores of social activity and people are not conscious of it in the beginning. It would be erroneous to think that bureaucracy has not taken root in our country, too. It has begun worming its way into various institutions, into the state apparatus and into the economy but we are conscious of that and have already undertaken a whole series of measures to render in impossible. It is not enough simply to undertake periodical drives against it but to wage incessant struggle and to educate people."
The Workers Manage the Factories in Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, (1950) https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm
