Racial attacks are on the increase, and a wave of collective paranoia is sweeping the country. When people speak of the East as a 'laboratory of freedom' they should bear in mind that the old notions of nationalism have re-emerged as the dominant ideology. The abuse of various ideas by the Communist Party has been a problem for the anarchist movement. For example, they have totally devalued the term 'self-management'. For thirty years the system of government was known as 'Communist Party governed self- management'.
Anarchists now face the difficult task of explaining what self-management really means.
The History of the Yugoslavian Anarchist Movement Anarchism in Yugoslavia can be traced back to the fight against the tyranny of the Austro-Hungarian and Turkish empires in the nineteenth century. During these liberation struggles, libertarians in the Balkan Peninsula made contact with figures like Proudhon and Malatesta. Johann Most, the German anarcho-syndicalist, had some involvement with Slavonian anarchists. Serbian anarchists formed an organisation with the help of Bakunin, who they had visited in Geneva. A group in Macedonia, on Yugoslavia's southern border, formed links with a strong anarchist group in Bulgaria.