Tito visits China in 1977.
President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito visited China for the first time in 1977, followed by a return visit of Chinese Prime Minister Hua Guofeng to Yugoslavia in 1978. The visit rekindled the Chinese-Yugoslav relations. At that time, it was the biggest reception a foreign dignitary recieved in the Peoples Republic
SOKO J-22 Orao (Eagle)
The Soko J-22 Orao (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Oрао, lit. 'eagle') is a Yugoslav twin-engined, subsonic ground-attack and aerial reconnaissance aircraft. It was developed and built in collaboration by SOKO in Yugoslavia and by Avioane Craiova in neighbouring Romania, being known in the latter as the IAR-93 Vultur. SOKO (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Соко) was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer based in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. The company was responsible for the production of many military aircraft for the Yugoslav Air Force.
The car that motorized Yugoslavia
The famous Zastava 750, also named Fićo, was the car that motorized the Yugoslav people and police. The Zastava 750 (Застава 750) was a supermini made by the Serbian car maker Zavod Crvena Zastava in Kragujevac.
Production of the Zastava 750 began on 18 October 1955 and ended on 18 November 1985. The car's popularity has started increasing in the last years, partly from the low fuel consumption and very cheap price as a second hand vehicle. Also it starting to become a symbol for nostalgia, and many youngsters that need cheap utilitarian vehicle with a bohemian status symbol are buying this car as a second hand vehicle
From the way of reformism to the way of class struggle
"History has recorded the development of reformism in all developed capitalist countries. Already Marx and Engels pointed to the social and class roots of opportunism and reformism. For them, reformism is not accidental, the delusion of these or those ideologues, not even an accidental vacillation of these or those strata of the working class. There is a historical regularity of reformism. Its class essence and ultimate goal have a bourgeois character. The basic, prevailing social basis of reformism is the bourgeoisie. Part of the working class that was recruited from proletarianized strata, was connected to it by thousands of threads and ties. In the struggle to create a political party, Marx and Engels led an unwavering and irreconcilable struggle with petty-bourgeois reformism, which appeared in the form of Proudhonism and Lasallianism with reformist ideology, which was created by the labor aristocracy in England and later in the USA. Substantial layers of highly skilled workers in England were created by the high wages paid by the English bourgeoisie at the expense of the exploited colonies and the monopoly profit which it collected using the monopolistic position of England on the world market. In the English trade unions, reformism got its way in ideology and practice. England is, in fact, his cradle. The ideas of the class struggle, the principles of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialist revolution were alien to the trade unions. Representing the opinion of not changing the capitalist order, they denied the existence of class contradictions between labor and capital and claimed that neither labor nor capital can exist without each other, and there is not, and cannot be, antagonism between him..."
Written by Josip Cazi (Yugoslav revolutionary and writer) in the book named "From the way of reformism to the way of class struggle". I sadly can't find an English translation (but I plan to translate the book). But here it is for my Serbo-Croatian speaking comrades:
http://radnici.ba/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/S-puta-reformizma-na-put-klasne-borbe-Josip-Cazi.pdf
The Emblem of SFR Yugoslavia
During World War II (1943–1945), the Yugoslav state was named Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (DFY), in 1945 it was renamed Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FPRY), and again in 1963 into Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). The emblem of socialist Yugoslavia was designed in 1943 and remained in use up to 1963, when the country underwent reforms and was renamed for the final time. It featured five torches surrounded by wheat and burning together in one flame. As part of the 1963 reforms, the name of the country was changed into Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and its emblem was redesigned to represent six Yugoslav federal republics (instead of the five nations). The new emblem was the final version with six torches, and was in official use until 1993 (past the country's dissolution in 1992). The date in the insignia remained in the new emblem
Tito and Trotskyism
Often throughout the post-war history of Yugoslavia, Comrade Tito was called a Trotskyist, by people who projected their internal instabilities onto a successful Yugoslavia. This article Comrade Tito wrote tells you how much Comrade Tito was against the Trotskyites and similar covert fascists.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1939/x01/x01.htm
Historical materialism through the Star Trek lens
As the years went by and I watched ever more Star Trek, combined with the enlightenment of Marxism, I came to the conclusion that a similar societal way, historical determinism, was described by Marx and others. The Federation and its ideology are socialist by nature.
Observing the federation through a realistic picture of the possible progress of humanity, we will assume that the universe and our environment are capable of supporting life outside the Earth. At the moment of our enlightenment with this information, humanity will find itself at a turning point. Abolish the self-destructive economic hierarchy of the world, destroy the social constructs that keep us in shackles, or remain just one broken world of semi-sapient monkeys.
The idea of the Federation, in my opinion, is the perfect idea of the end of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the beginning of a classless society, and the beginning of a communist utopia. The very assumption that a classless society begins with the federation as we know it through the series gives oxygen to an optimistic mind that looks at all this through the eyes of a Marxist.
What do you think about it? Is the Federation something that modern, real Marxists should strive for? Are the ideals of the Federation compatible with the ideas of communism?
TLDR: Do you think that the Federation is a stepping stone to a classless society?
It's like when Croats or Serbs or Bosniaks here in Yugoslavia praise the Nazis and how they would be nazis and better of if Germany had won. They forget that they were up the list on the genocide chopping block right after the Jews and Romani. Slavs were never intended to survive the "arianisation" of Europe.
All of the Balkans do that too. Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia have open nazis and fascists serving and commanding their militaries. Croats after the Ustaše, Bosniaks too. Serbs on the other hand glorify the Chetniks, rehabilitate mass murderers and anti-communist war criminals (rehabilitated Nikola Kalabic a few days ago as we speak). There is no city in Bosnia that has not got a street, school or sport club named after a Ustaša, or a Chetnik or a Bosniak radical muslim fascist. That doesn't only happen in Ukraine. Greece, Bulgaria, Romania they all do it too.
I mean I come from a proletariat family, my grandfather was a partisan in ww2, my father worked in a factory his whole life. But I went to university, got my doctorate etc. I still consider myself to be a part of the proletariat. My class is still opressed by the elites. Even with my degree and job, I still don't enable the bourgeoisie.
The bourgeoisie and the capitalists by extension always had the same "talking points" and "arguments" through the economic history of the world. The quantity and quality of work was always "put to question" when a change was imminent. When the slaves revolted in the third servile war in Rome there was talk about how the barbarian slaves were lazy, when the serfdom and feudal slavery in Europe was being abolished, the bourgeoisie always agreed how a human free from their idea of work and happiness is a "threat to society". So knowing history is always enough to beat that kind of "facts" that come from the elites.
There are still few of us who still identify as Yugoslavs here lol