We read and discussed Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia by Darko Suvin with Adam from Red Library. This incredibly dense book was a wealth of theoretical and historical knowledge about one of our favorite subjects, Yugoslavia. The SFRY defies neat categorization and the more we learn about it the more questions we have about the process of transition to communism, workers' self management, radical democracy, markets, and state socialism. It is the perfect meditative subject for a podcast that continually implores Marxists to stop being so certain of everything.

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Suvin, Darko. Splendour, misery, and possibilities : an X-ray of socialist Yugoslavia. Leiden Boston: Brill, 2016.

A UTOPIA IN THE BALKANS -- CATHERINE SAMARY

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II114/articles/catherine-samary-a-utopian-in-the-balkans

Splendours, Miseries, and Potentialities of Socialist Yugoslavia- The Berlin Thesis

https://www.corsoitalia7.it/2017/03/splendours-miseries-and-potentialities-of-socialist-yugoslavia-the-berlin-theses1/

The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism -- James Robertson

https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/yugoslav-socialism-tito-self-management-serbia-balkans

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