Đilasism

Đilasism refers to the Yugoslav communist politics of the influence of Yugoslav communist Milovan Đilas.

Theory
Đilasism arose as a break from Titoism pursued by the Yugoslav government of Josip Broz Tito. Đilas published articles in Borba in 1950, collectively titled Savremene teme ("Modern topics"), expressing his ideas on the socialist path of Yugoslavia and his criticisms of the Soviet Union. In Djilas's analysis of the USSR, he argued that the Stalinist totalitarian state system is inherently imperialist and state capitalist. Some within the leadership of the SKJ viewed these articles as "heresies". 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." 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. 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.

Pejorative and repression
The word was often used as pejorative, including by Tito, while Đilas himself personally denied that such an ideology existed.

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.