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Djilas' work was influenced by his disillusionment with the failures of socialist Yugoslavia to live up to its revolutionary ideals. He believed that the New Class had become a reactionary force, stifling social and economic progress, and that it was necessary to undertake radical reforms to re-establish a more egalitarian and democratic socialism. milovan djilas nova klasapdf

Key points:

The central argument of Djilas’s work is that the Bolshevik Revolution did not result in a "classless society" as Marx had predicted. Instead, it birthed a new ruling class—the Communist Party bureaucracy. Milovan Đilas and "The New Class": A Revolutionary

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The book was published in the U.S. in 1957 and translated into 50 languages. Check Internet Archive (archive

Milovan Djilas 's seminal work, The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System Nova klasa: Kritika savremenog komunizma

Đilas was not an external critic or a Western Cold Warrior. He was the Vice President of Yugoslavia under Josip Broz Tito, a man who had fought the Nazis and helped build the very communist state he eventually dismantled ideologically. When fragments of the book were smuggled to the West and published, Đilas was imprisoned. The book itself became one of the most important texts of the 20th century, offering the first insider’s critique of the "actually existing" socialism of the Soviet bloc.

2. Core Thesis

• The communist revolution did not abolish class – it created a new ruling class.
• This class is not based on ownership of capital, but on control of political power and state resources.
• Djilas calls it the “political bureaucracy” or “new class” – it appropriates surplus value through state management, not private property.