Đilasism

Đilasism arose as a break from Titoism pursued by the Yugoslav government of Josip Broz Tito.{{sfn|Warner Neal|1958|p=74}} Đilas published articles in {{lang|sh|Borba}} in 1950, collectively titled {{lang|sh|Savremene teme}} ("Modern topics"), expressing his ideas on the socialist path of Yugoslavia and his criticisms of the Soviet Union.{{sfn|Režek|2006|p=68}} In Djilas's analysis of the USSR, he argued that the Stalinist totalitarian state system is inherently imperialist and state capitalist.{{cite book |last=Djilas |first=Milovan |author-link=Milovan Đilas |date=1957 |title=The new class: An analysis of the Communist system Hardcover |publisher=Thames & Hudson |page=}} Some within the leadership of the SKJ viewed these articles as "heresies".{{sfn|Hammond|1955}} Several members of the Central 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."{{sfn|Hammond|1955}} Đilas criticised bureaucracy as the "privileged class", where the source of this privilege came from its absolutism and it would use ideological repression to preserve this privilege.{{sfn|Režek|2006|p=68}} He also believed that the party and state should be separate entities, and along with Edvard Kardelj, that in time political opposition would be allowed as the state and the party withered away.{{sfn|Režek|2006|pp=68–70}}

The word was often used as pejorative, including by Tito, while Đilas himself personally denied that such an ideology existed.{{cite book |first=Milovan |last=Đilas |author-link=Milovan Đilas |title=Parts of a lifetime |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |date=1975 |page=7 |isbn=978-0151709694}}

Several publications were suppressed and journalists arrested on the grounds that they were "Đilasist". These included the magazines Beseda edited by Ivan Minatti, and Revija 57 edited by Veljko Rus.{{sfn|Gabrič|2019|pp=55–56}}

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• {{cite journal |last=Gabrič |first=Aleš |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/rch/article/view/9738 |date=October 2019 |title=The Younger Generation's Magazines in the Eyes of the Communist Ideologues |journal=Review of Croatian History |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=35–61 |doi=10.22586/review.v15i1.9738 |s2cid=212824317 |issn=1845-4380 |oclc=1137264327|doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last=Hammond |first=Thomas Taylor |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/yugoslavia/1955-01-01/djilas-affair-and-jugoslav-communism |title=The Djilas Affair and Jugoslav Communism |date=January 1955 |journal=Foreign Affairs |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=298–315 |doi=10.2307/20031096 |jstor=20031096 |issn=0015-7120 |oclc=26780544}}
• {{cite journal |last=Režek |first=Mateja |url=https://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/ssj/article/view/13961 |title=Defeat of the First "Party Liberalism" and The Echo of "Djilasism" in Slovenia |date=November 2006 |journal=Slovene Studies |publisher=Society of Slovene Studies |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=67–78 |doi=10.7152/ssj.v28i1.13961 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |issn=0193-1075 |oclc=456112959}}
• {{cite book |last=Warner Neal |first=Fred |title=Titoism in action: the reforms in Yugoslavia after 1948 |location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, California |publisher=University of California Press |date=1958}}

• [https://www.marxists.org/history/yugoslavia/index.htm#djilas The Djilas Case Archive] at Marxists Internet Archive.

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