Neo-Titoism: A third-way communism

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When creating a communist ideology, it's simple enough to realize that most communist ideologies nowadays rely on Western or Eastern principles. Western communists tend to be often progressive and liberal while Eastern communists are usually reactionary and quite authoritarian. But what if, both of these values are simply rejected and instead there is a third way to getting a communist society? Surely we had someone named "Tito" pave way but now, the time has come to finish what Josip Broz Tito has started, the journey to ending Western and Eastern imperialism and when this "one empire" rules the world, imperialism itself becomes obsolete completely and a global federation is formed, neither Western nor Eastern but a federation of the whole World itself with no hegemony from the Americans, Russians, or the Chinese. It is the hegemony of the proletariat, the hegemony of all.

Neo-Titoism is the ideology I have become rather part of after delving into Titoism and eventually reforming some of the takes on Tito as well as evaluating his leadership and the state of Yugoslav country from 1980 to 1990. As a Neo-Titoist, I believe that Yugoslavia would have prospered greatly had the regional inequality been dealt with earlier on that the Slovene-Croat hegemony wasn't a thing and that every Yugoslav republic got what it wanted in terms of human development. Slovenia and Croatia were the only republics that were developed and the rest of Yugoslavia was in poverty which was minimized by government effort of free healthcare and free education but the government did not extract the surplus from Croatia and Slovenia and then redistributed it among other Yugoslav republics. This would have lowered the risk of nationalist uprising as no one would feel the negative impact of the Slovene-Croat hegemony. Although it is understandable that Tito was doing this to combat Serbian hegemony, Tito did it for too long that it was simply impacting the Yugoslav economy as a whole as only two republics were productive and the rest of Yugoslavia wasn't.

Next thing, the 1974 constitution. I don't like how Tito simply decided to give up Yugoslavia by saying that "republics have the right to secede". In his own defense, he simply wasn't willing to give up Yugoslavia to the Serbs and since he was dying, this was his last resort, though he had a guy named Stane Dolanc who was as hardline as Tito was. Stane Dolanc was the perfect candidate for Tito as Dolanc had proven his hardline authoritarianism for SKJ in the 1980s by hunting down on nationalists and criminals such as Vojislav Šešelj and Željko Ražnatović (Arkan). He was even suspected of having killed Stjepan Đureković, a Croatian businessman who later became a liberal dissent for Croats in West Germany in 1982 and was assassinated in 1983.

Dolanc's regime would have stopped the Serbian nationalist, Slobodan Milošević from consolidating power. Dolanc would have to focus on the issue of regional inequality and he would have had to also combat nationalism. With more regional development eyed on other Yugoslav republics, all six of them would feel the lesser gap and the Slovene-Croat hegemony that Tito created would no longer be felt and there would be also no Serbian hegemony remerging from Milošević as the Serbs wouldn't be able to grow their dissent in bigger numbers against the Brotherhood and Unity.

The next thing for sure in the 1974 constitution is making Kosovo the seventh republic. By allowing Albanians to live in the Socialist Republic of Kosovo, the Brotherhood and Unity are ensured and Albanians wouldn't be oppressed by the Serbs as the Serbian government would have no control over the decision of the Albanians. SAP Vojvodina still gets autonomy and both Kosovo and Vojvodina get to have veto power. Kosovo would also receive substantial funding from Croatia and Slovenia to aid the Albanians in their effort to resist Serbian nationalism, thus halting the Serbian colonization of Kosovo that had been going on since the early 20th century.

As for the survival of Yugoslavia in the 21st century, it is unlikely. A lot of alternate histories say that Yugoslavia would have to liberalize (abandon communism, go social democracy) which seems realistic given that Yugoslavia being the sole communist state in Europe would be challenging for the economy unless they upgraded their market socialism to that of China and hopefully do not get boycotted by the West through sanctions and trade embargoes (just don't wage wars, it's simple).

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