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. Red Library: A Political Education Podcast for Today's LeftFrom 78 PodcastSuvin, Darko. Splendour, misery, and possibilities : an X-ray of socialist Yugoslavia. Leiden Boston: Brill, 2016.A UTOPIA IN THE BALKANS -- CATHERINE SAMARYhttps://newleftreview.org/issues/II114/articles/catherine-samary-a-utopian-in-the-balkansSplendours, Miseries, and Potentialities of Socialist Yugoslavia- The Berlin Thesishttps://www.corsoitalia7.it/2017/03/splendours-miseries-and-potentialities-of-socialist-yugoslavia-the-berlin-theses1/The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism -- James Robertsonhttps://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/yugoslav-socialism-tito-self-management-serbia-balkansSupport the show