Talk:Đilasism

Non-notable topic

As far as I can tell, this topic fails Wikipedia general notability guideline. There is a reference in the article attesting use of the term "Djilasism" (that particular spelling), but only as a part of a reported speech and not offering any information on the meaning of the concept. The article itself notes that Đilas himself denied existence of Đilasism. I propose to note Đilasism as a pejorative term or whatever it was used for (provided there are reliable sources for such claim), for example in Milovan Đilas article and to remove this article. --Tomobe03 (talk) 13:34, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Responding here to the Dec 2020 comment and to the Nov 2022 PROD: Searches find several sources other than the Neal book discussing "Djilasism" in greater or lesser detail, some relating to the mid-1950s and others to the post-1968 and post-1989 eras: [1]. The term was used in a 1955 Foreign Affairs article (paywalled), though that may be seen as a journalistic handle; Đilas plus Vladimir Dedijer may not be sufficient to constitute a Đilasism, though B. Wynes' 2017 PhD thesis also mentions The contributors to "Naši razgledi" were accused of "Djilasism" and the magazine suppressed, indicating wider influence. Overall, it feels that there is a bit too much on the topic for a PROD to be safe, and that it goes beyond just material for the Milovan Djilas biography; perhaps expanding Titoism#Outcome_and_influence? AllyD (talk) 15:04, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

I've deprodded this, firstly because it is being challenged here, but more importantly because there are a lot of references to Đilasism and Đilasist and the term ought to go somewhere. At the very least, a redirect to Milovan Djilas, but I agree with AllyD that that is not so appropriate. Does it refer to his efforts at reforming the Yugoslav communist party from within, or to his later position of replacing communism with social democracy? Rather than a specific ideology, It seems more to be a label applied to critics trying to liberalise the Yugoslav communist party. Much in the same way that critics from the left in America are labelled "communist" whatever their ideology really is. Most of the mentions seem to be of this sort, although it's hard to tell as I mostly can only see snippets from pre-internet sources (1950s and 60s). One that is available is this which talks about the suppression of the magazines Revija 57 and Beseda for being Đilasist. This suggests one way forward is to write about the people and publications that have been attacked, exiled, or suppressed in this way. This source is behind a paywall, but since it has "Djilasism" in the title, we can be pretty sure it has a lot to say on the subject. SpinningSpark 15:33, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

@Spinningspark, @AllyD: Thanks for identifying these sources! I've added them in a further reading section. Hopefully someone that has access to either of the paywalled articles can add some information here at some point in the future. -- Grnrchst (talk) 21:45, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

@Grnrchst:, @Spinningspark:, @AllyD:, I've added info from Režek, 2006, and Hammond, 1955 to the article. From reading those, and a quick search of other academic papers, it seems that what "defines" "Đilasism" is the contents of Savremene teme (a collection of four articles Đilas wrote in November 1950 which critiqued the Soviet Union). I'll look through the libraries I have access to, to see if I can find anything more/better that can be used as references and work on this slowly over the next couple of weeks. Cdjp1 (talk) 12:55, 23 February 2023 (UTC)