[BRIEF NOTE] The SFRY was globalized

[rfmcdonald]

Neil Clark's claim at The Guardian that an independent Montenegro will enjoy less autonomy and freedom than the old SFRY's autonomous Montenegrin republic is debatable, though I'm inclined to say that identifying a liberal Communist regime like that of Tito's Yugoslavia as an ideal is setting the bar awfully low. His claim that Yugoslavia's regime constituted an authentically viable alternate social and economic system, now, is risible. Is he intentionally forgetting Yugoslavia's exceptional dependence on the tourism income, workers remittances, and international loans that it needed to keep its economy viable, for a time, before its internal contradictions triumphed and brought the whole thing tumbling down?

Silliness.