re. Yugoslavia, couldn't have said it better myself...
re. Elson, I read above mentioned article when it came out (I used to sub to NLR) and kept it in my files until recently...as I recall, she makes good point about demands for state activity absent self-activity (of various kinds, seems like she refer to citizens more than workers) being non-starter...but she goes on to call for using state resources to facilitate networks (worker-consumer-activist) to educate, folks, develop what she calls 'social audit' for assessing economic accountability/responsibility, and formulate ideas for new technologies & economic restructuring...such networks could then become part of regulatory process and that process could be used to require private property owners and private firms to be more socially responsible... at some point a critical mass can be reached in which social accountability will supersede private profitability...all this is premised on emergence of participatory rather than 'parasitic' state (as Marx called it _Civil War in France_) with socialism being conceptualized in terms democratic accountability of resource use... Michael Hoover