Abstract #139659

Globalization of Democratic Participation Self-Governance Versus Globalization of Oligopolistic

Markets Totalitarianism 20 years later

Vera VRATUSA, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract Text:

The paper re-examines the fashionable theme "globalization of markets" in the light of the several
centuries long process of world-wide violent expansion of capitalist social relations. It focuses its present
culmination in the neo-liberal policy variant of the capitalist strategy of privatization by less than 500
controlling package owners of the biggest supra- and transnational industrial corporations and financial
institutions. Presented are the devastating consequences of the implementation of this strategy. Paper
further critically re-examines the XXth century "real-socialist" negative experiences of the "dictatorship
over the needs". It points out some lessons that can be learned from the Yugoslav self management
experience for the present and future attempts at the re-conceptualization of the alternative post
capitalist strategy of social development at the local, national, regional and world level.

2002 version of the paper with the same title is available at

https://www.academia.edu/7845871/Globalization_of_Democratic_Participation_Self_Governance_Ver
sus_Globalization_of_Oligopolistic_Markets_Totalitarianism . The author of the paper in the old/new
abstract starts from the firm believe that this theme deserves to be revisited and discussed again after
20 years in the light of the historic experience and referential literature of the last two decades.

Group:

RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management

Session Selection:

Democratic Participation and Self-Management Vs Authoritarianism: Theoretical Reflections and

Propositions

Slot: Saturday, 1 July 2023: 10:30-12:20

Scheduled Time: 11:45

Title: Globalization of Democratic Participation Self-Governance Versus Globalization of Oligopolistic

Markets Totalitarianism

Submitter's E-mail Address: vera.veritas@gmail.com

Presentation Format: I plan to present virtually

Preferred Presentation Format: ppt. presentation

Keywords:

authoritarianism, democratic participation, globalization and self management

E-mail Address: vera.veritas@gmail.com