The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist SystemThe New Class created a sensation when it was published in the United States in 1957, because it was the first time that a ranking Communist had publicly analyzed his disillusionment with the system. Djilas, a former associate of Tito's who had traveled from the lowest to the highest rung of the hierarchical ladder and who was imprisoned for his views, had found himself increasingly estranged from contemporary Communism and attracted to the idea of democratic socialism. Here, however, he puts aside the story of his personal evolution to write a detached, lucid, courageous critique of the Communist system: its roots, the character of its revolutions, the rise of its powerful political bureaucracy --"the new class"-- in what was intended to be a classless society, its one-party state, its economic policies, and its tyranny over minds. Finally, Djilas examines the essence of the conflict between the U.S.S.R. and the West that continues to this day. In the present atmosphere of intensifying confrontation, The New Class is more significant than ever. |
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... in ancient Greece , had expressed it in a different way . The idea of the reality of change , caused by the struggle of opposites , called Dialectics , was taken over from Hegel ; the same idea had been expressed in a 1 Origins.
... in ancient Greece , had expressed it in a different way . The idea of the reality of change , caused by the struggle of opposites , called Dialectics , was taken over from Hegel ; the same idea had been expressed in a 1 Origins.
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... Hegel , in presenting the idea of the Reality of Change , retained the concept of an unchanging supreme law , or the Idea of the Absolute . As he expressed it , in the last analy- sis there are unchangeable laws which , independently of ...
... Hegel , in presenting the idea of the Reality of Change , retained the concept of an unchanging supreme law , or the Idea of the Absolute . As he expressed it , in the last analy- sis there are unchangeable laws which , independently of ...
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... Hegel ; there is also a difference between the Communists and absolute mon- archy . The monarchy did not think quite as highly of itself as the Communists do of themselves , nor was it as absolute as they are . 2 . Hegel himself was ...
... Hegel ; there is also a difference between the Communists and absolute mon- archy . The monarchy did not think quite as highly of itself as the Communists do of themselves , nor was it as absolute as they are . 2 . Hegel himself was ...
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Origins | 1 |
Character of the Revolution | 15 |
The New Class | 37 |
Copyright | |
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