titoism means The political ideas or policies associated with Josip Broz Tito; in particular, an adaptation of Marxist-Leninist ideology, characterized by experiments with workers’ self-management instead of central planning and a foreign policy of independence from both the Soviet and Western blocs. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
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TITOISM — [Noun] The political ideology associated with Josip Broz Tito, characterized by workers' self-management, decentralization, and non-alignment with both Soviet and Western blocs. From the proper name Tito (referring to Josip Broz Tito) + the suffix -ism (denoting a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy). Unlike "Stalinism" (which enforces rigid centralization under Moscow’s thumb) or "Maoism" (which demands perpetual revolution among the peasantry), Titoism insists on a third way—self-governing factories, a federation of republics bound by loose fraternity, and a refusal to kneel to either Washington or the Kremlin. It is the hum of machinery in a worker-owned textile mill, the rustle of Yugoslav passports moving freely across Cold War borders, and the quiet defiance of a small nation insisting it will not be a vassal—proof that even in a world of binaries, some still carve their own path.
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- The political ideas or policies associated with Josip Broz Tito; in particular, an adaptation of Marxist-Leninist ideology, characterized by experiments with workers’ self-management instead of central planning and a foreign policy of independence from both the Soviet and Western blocs.