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Unlike Western capitalist critics, Đilas was a committed Marxist who critiqued the system from within its own ideological framework.

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The new class consists of the political bureaucracy—specifically, the high-ranking party officials, administrators, and secret police. Milovan Djilas Nova Klasa.pdf

Djilas was critical of the Soviet-type socialist system, arguing that it had failed to create a truly egalitarian society. Instead, he claimed that the system had given rise to a new form of exploitation, in which the New Class exploited the working class and the peasantry.

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: This new class is not defined by owning capital, but by controlling it through their positions in the party and state. Their power derives from their role in distributing national resources, managing the economy, and monopolizing political authority. This leads to a rigid system of privilege and hierarchy, exactly the opposite of the utopian equality the revolution promised.

A: The 1957 English edition is approximately 224 pages. The PDF scan is usually around 3-5 MB in size. Instead, he claimed that the system had given

Even in non-communist contexts, the phrase “new class” has been adopted by conservative thinkers (like Irving Kristol) to describe a managerial, credentialed elite in Western democracies that uses state power for its own enrichment.

Djilas’s core argument was deceptively simple yet devastating. Karl Marx predicted a revolution by the proletariat leading to a “dictatorship of the proletariat” and ultimately a stateless, classless society. Djilas observed that in the USSR and Eastern Europe, this had not happened.

In 1957, a manuscript smuggled out of a Yugoslav prison arrived in New York, destined to become one of the most influential political documents of the 20th century. , once the heir apparent to Josip Broz Tito, published The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System (Nova Klasa). It was the first time a high-ranking Communist official provided a systematic Marxist critique of why the revolution had failed to deliver a classless society. The Core Thesis: A New Form of Ownership