Tito calls for purge Yet bureaucracy is chief source
By John Spencer
1972John SpencerEastern EuropeCommunist Party and Stalinism Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
of restorationist danger PRESIDENT Tito said in an interview published at the weekend that there will be a thorough purge of the Yugoslav Communist Party ranks-and that some members will be prosecuted.
Interviewed by the Lagreb daily leader said 'we must be merciless' enemies of the working class. There or sentimentality, he said.
He said the class enemies prominent 'class enemies' Tito are all those who are against speaks about are members — socialism, including those who leading members naturally — of This own Party gives the lie to would like to get rich at the expense of somebody else's Yugoslav leader's talk of 'socialism'. • The Stalinist theory work. Referring to those who of 'socialism in a single country' had already grown rich he to which Tito adheres is nothing said: more than justification of "Those we must not only expel bureaucratic rule. from the party, but adminis- Favourable conditions for tratively prosecute. We must those who are plundering the return what they took away to so-called "self-management' ecothose who created it.' nomy are produced by the He said commissions should be actions of the Tito bureaucracy set up to investigate the origin itself. It has opened the country of the property of all such to foreign capital on favourable people, starting with Party mem- terms, entered the monetary bers. The president said the institutions of world capitalism Party was at a crossroad at such as the International which it must square accounts Monetary Fund and made the with all the enemies of socialist dinar a convertible currency. development of the country. This has shattered the monoEnergetic measures had poly of foreign trade, the main already been taken in some bulwark protecting Yugoslay inrepublics — a reference to the dustry from the impact of the wave of trials and the sacking capitalist world market. The of Communist Party 'eaders in wholesale corruption of funcCroatia - and legislation was tionaries by foreign capitalist being prepared to help counter firms and the emergence of an opposing trends on the part of extremely wealthy layer within 'technocratic and bureaucratic the country is an inevitable conforces in the country', he said. sequence.
Tito was speaking as the Tito's deputy Stane Dolanc leader of the Yugoslav ruling recently admitted that the state bureaucracy, which is the chief has no control or even knowsources of the danger of a capi- ledge about the operations of talist restoration in the country. its own functionaries abroad. Like its counterparts in the many of whom have accumulated USSR and Eastern Europe the big sums in foreign exchange Yugoslav bureaucracy appro- which, under various guises, they priates the lion's share of the can invest in Yugoslavia. social product. The profits of such enterprises The fact that among are guaranteed by law under 'Vjesnik', the Yugoslav in the struggle against must be no liberalism