The manuscript of the article was written after Tito purged the Croatian communists at Karadjordjevo in December 1971. Actually, it was a precursor for Ciliga's work when he published it in Italian under the same title. Ciliga described Yugoslav crisis as a complex whirlpool of political and economic problems. He argued that it was not only the national question that had provoked the state crisis, but also self-management socialism as a model of state capitalism. He saw Yugoslavia headed toward evident collapse and possible new interethnic wars in the absence of political pluralism, wide democratization and a loose confederation. Finally, he advocated for the demise of communist power and the transformation of Yugoslavia from a dictatorship to a democracy and its transformation into a de facto union of sovereign states.