Titoism

Revisionist leader Josip Broz Tito with United States president Richard Nixon. Under Titoism, Yugoslavia collaborated heavily with Western imperialists against socialist states.

Titoism is a revisionist tendency which has its origins in the social-fascist dictatorship of Josip Broz Tito in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Titoism is opposed to Marxism-Leninism, upholds bourgeois nationalism, denies the role of the vanguard party in socialist construction, and seeks to preserve private ownership of the means of production under the veil of "market socialism".

History

Titoism took shape right after World War II, but it really solidified between 1949 and 1950, when Tito started to condemn Comrade Stalin as a "person wanting to gain control over Yugoslavia" which has Josip Broz Tito has quoted it as: “We do not need anyone to teach us socialism. We are building socialism in our own way, and we shall continue to do so” in the year of 1948. By 1949, Yugoslavia adopted market socialism as its economic perspective. Tito pushed for “workers’ self-management,” which gave more power to factory managers and local bureaucrats. By 1950, this system was officially promoted as the Yugoslav model. It sounded radical, but it opened the door to Western influence inside Yugoslavia. The Titoist economic model has continued until the collapse of Yugoslavia. By the early years of the 1960's and through out the late 70's, Yugoslavia has requested Loans, due its poor economic planning. In the 80's, the economic model has gone in to a bad way. The corruption and the Inflation has left the people with lower wages and soon adopting ration cards in the late 1980s.

See also

• Bukharinism
• Dengism
• Yugoslav-Soviet split