Leaving aside the particularities of Yugoslav socialism as Marxist-Leninists understood it, and its uneasy relationship with the USSR, dissident is such a classist term of distinction. Ordinary people rejected the imposition of authoritarian state rule but weren't lauded for it. They didn't write books but in their silence and invisibility still ended up in a burial pit or prison camp for their efforts. Dilas wasn't the only person, party intellectual or otherwise, to become utterly disillusioned by Stalinism.