Odzivi na Titovo pismo jeseni 1972 v OK ZKS Kamnik

The clash between the Party’s “healthy forces” or the conservatives with the “liberals” took place in the League of Communists of Slovenia (ZKS) in the autumn of 1972. At the end of September 1972, the members of the Party received a letter from the presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (ZKJ) and the executive bureau of the presidium of the ZKJ or the so-called Tito’s letter. The letter said that the matter at hand is the fate of socialism in Yugoslavia and that the Communists therefore need to intensify their activity in self-government authorities, state authorities and socio-political organisations. The letter was primarily aimed against liberalism. The Kamnik municipal committee of the League of Communists discussed the letter at the second session of the Kamnik municipal conference of the ZKS, which took place on 12 October 1972 in the meeting room of the Assembly of the Municipality of Kamnik. The article presents the main highlights of this discussion, which show that aside from a few rare exceptions most participants in the discussion did not comprehend the significance of Tito’s views and the change of the “Party’s course”.