When socialism began to be demolished, everyone was its critic. Social property, by the standards of the early nineties, was not powerful enough to respond to the needs of the modern market. Then Yugoslavia fell apart, and five, then six, and now seven poisonous mushrooms sprung from its ashes, which are getting closer to their financial disappearance every day. Contemporary economic trends require market competitiveness, efficiency and a strong industry that helps to stabilize the fiscal policy of a given country.
Otherwise, the state becomes powerless to fight the recession and is forced to borrow, but also to sell off its assets, which slowly leads to the loss of independence (not the concept of independence that Montenegrin and Serbian nationalists have).
We are witnessing that in Europe, only Germany has the potential to enable sustainable economic stability. So Wolfgang Štrek, a sociologist from the Max Planck Institute in Cologne, sees the essence of success in the development of industry and small and medium-sized enterprises. “When America turned to the information technology boom of the '80s and '90s, Germany continued to develop industrial production. The economy was strictly regulated, employers respected their obligations to employees, workers had the right to sit on executive boards and influence business decisions. Companies have invested in innovation, above all in the global market, placing emphasis on quality rather than product price." At the same time, in hundreds of smaller cities, the mitelstand economy (small and medium-sized enterprises) with a maximum of 500 employees, specialized in top quality products, had an exceptional success. The best example is "Tital" from Betsvig, which makes precision parts for airplanes and racing cars. Therefore, success has become dependent on innovations that come from production, so the employer invests more and more in workers "who think while they work", because this is the only way to remain competitive. German success is also supported by the work ethic of the German population, as well as the rational use of its own raw materials from the Ruhr and Saar regions. The most interesting observation from the above is the fact that the workers sit on the management boards. Didn't we have a similar situation in the former Yugoslavia in the system of "workers' self-management"? And how is it now, or rather who is sitting there today? Of course, we are not referring to factories, because they have long been gone in Montenegro, but to state institutions, which are run by largely unprofessional individuals with the vision that citizens' property is their personal property. Serious countries plan their economic policy strategically, and our economic predators do it in pubs, agreeing on who will get the bigger sum from the sale of state property, so with a double whiskey and a cohiba, their practice looks like this: "You like the privatization of Elektropriveda, you like a big parking lot and part of the Slovenian beach, you get the bonus from renting Kumbor, while you, my dear friend, will get the land of Solana".
For the 21st century and a democratic society, this is a genius formula of state policy. Our property thus goes into the hands of "businessmen", foreign or domestic regardless, so the money from the sale - a little flows into the budget, a little into the pockets of intermediaries, and according to statistics, the economy - "records growth". There is no recession, no negative balance, no industry, and the more that is sold, the more secure our salaries and pensions are.
However, what will happen to our country when our creators sell everything and do not open a single factory, no one knows. Maybe they will sell us, as slaves, to some good investor, while promising that this is "a historic chance for Montenegro that will ease the burden on the state coffers, and make Montenegro attractive for the foreign market and thus help it get out of the crisis."
Questions arise - the market of what? Or, what about the worker? A quarter of a century ago, he had everything: social protection, free healthcare and education, a secure job and a strong union that protected his rights. But the worker suddenly got drunk on AB wine, which clouded his mind and sent him out into the street to look for what he got today.
And what did he get? If he is lucky (with a diploma without a certificate), a seasonal job in a coastal hotel, where he will work overtime for 300 euros, while not having the right to ask for better conditions. While serving well-fatted tourists from far away Russia, he will have to forget about all his problems and at the same time fake a smile at his guest in the hope that the latter will leave him at least a 50-cent tip. And then, at the end of working hours, somewhere around midnight, the manager comes (thank God we have plenty of them) and says that he has to stay another 2 or 3 hours because "some special guests" are expected. If he accidentally refuses, he will be fired, "because there are those who want to". The fact that his wife, a professor of literature, is sick and has rheumatic diseases and works in the neighboring hotel, so she has no time to take care of the children, will not help either: he has to work overtime and without compensation, so let the children fend for themselves. Who to complain to? To the union? Are you kidding me, does that exist here? Aware of this, this former employee of KAP decides to stay at his workplace and force himself to smile at his clients.
This is how it is in the capitalist filth of neoliberalism, where the worker is reduced to a commodity, and efficiency and profit are put before his personality. The one who does not have an entrepreneurial gift (in our case a well-positioned godfather) goes to the labor market like - Jesus in the desert, without food and without water, with faith that God sees everything and that he will protect him.
Since the organizations fighting for his rights are destroyed, the worker slowly loses consciousness of the rebellion against "neo-slavery", accepting his role as a smiling servant. History, like Francis Fukuyama, is coming to its end. There are no more famous revolutions or barricades, and textbooks are slowly being filled with boring data about some economic crises caused by stagnation in economic development. With no salary and no basic rights to rest and a free weekend, with a huge war for a loan in a foreign bank, our worker is forced to live a parallel reality with television, waiting every fourth year for the "holiday of democracy" in order not to invest in his biometric identity card . Maybe someday, when he thinks and remembers how he lived happier in his youth, believing in a classless society and collective property. But, over time, he forgets that too, because his memory is suppressed by information that Ceca filled Ušće or that Aco Pejović gained 7 kg during his summer vacation in Greece, where he sang and stayed in a hotel owned by the SPC.
How much longer will the neoliberal slave have to laugh at the force, living in the hope that God will punish the rich for exploiting him? While he is waiting for an answer, our worker would do well to join some nationalist organization that will blame other nations for all the misfortunes, because their seasonal workers cannot get a job.
Thus, he will become reactionary, believing that he is fighting for something greater than himself, for the nation, for the state. And while the nationalists will fight mythical battles, the neoliberal "investor" will happily rub their hands and laugh at the leftist slogan: When the rich exploit the poor, it's called capitalism, when the poor protest, it's called violence.
Because of this social prism, when we have already opened the door to corporate neo-slave ownership, we can freely expect the rapid arrival of neo-fascism. Until then, dear workers, enjoy listening to the farming wisdom of Ekrem Jevrić.
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