Approaching an almost forgotten group: The Yugoslav Praxis Marxists

Abstract

The subject matter of this article is the group of Yugoslav thinkers that became know as the Praxis group. These philosophers and sociologists, whose main productions concentrate from the early 1960's to the late 1970's, presented as the particular feature of their work an attempt to criticize the existing conditions on a socialist country, Yugoslavia, not from the viewpoint of the capitalist dissidents but rather from the necessity of developing real existent Socialism. In this sense, their conception of self-management and their critique of alienation build up the core of this paper. Along with it, a contextualization of their condition of emergene within that country and a brief balance of their work are presented.