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Đilasism refers to the Yugoslav communist politics of the influence of Yugoslav communistMilovan Đilas.[1]
Đilasism started as a breakaway faction ofTitoism. Đilas rejectedStalinism as inherentlytotalitarian,imperialist andstate capitalist. He was also highly critical of thebureaucracy, viewing bureaucrats as their ownsocial class which enjoyedsocial privilege and tended to useideological repression forself-serving reasons.
Đilasism arose as a break fromTitoism pursued by the Yugoslav government ofJosip Broz Tito.[1] Đilas published articles inBorba in 1950, collectively titledSavremene teme ("Modern topics"), expressing his ideas on the socialist path of Yugoslavia and his criticisms of the Soviet Union.[2]
In Đilas' analysis of the USSR, he argued that theStalinist totalitarian state system is inherentlyimperialist andstate capitalist.[3] Some within the leadership of theSKJ viewed these articles as "heresies".[4] Several members of theCentral Committee of the SKJ were in agreement with Đilas' ideas, and during later political investigations one even confessed that he had "written an article propagating Djilasism."[4]
Đilas criticised thebureaucracy as the "privileged class", where the source of thissocial privilege came from itsabsolutism and it would useideological repression to preserve this privilege.[2] He also believed that the party and state should be separate entities, and along withEdvard Kardelj, that in time political opposition would be allowed as thestate and the party withered away.[5]
The word was often used as pejorative, including by Tito, while Đilas himself personally denied that such an ideology existed.[6]
Several publications were suppressed and journalists arrested on the grounds that they were "Đilasist". These included the magazinesBeseda edited byIvan Minatti, andRevija 57 edited byVeljko Rus.[7]
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