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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... Marx's ideas ; this was especially true of those who knew little philosophy and had even less talent for it . As the time passed , Marx's successors revealed a tendency to present his teachings as a finite and all - inclusive concept of ...
... Marx's ideas ; this was especially true of those who knew little philosophy and had even less talent for it . As the time passed , Marx's successors revealed a tendency to present his teachings as a finite and all - inclusive concept of ...
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... Marx denied the need for any kind of philosophy . His closest friend , Engels , declared that philosophy had died with the development of science . Marx's thesis was not at all original . The so - called scientific philosophy ...
... Marx denied the need for any kind of philosophy . His closest friend , Engels , declared that philosophy had died with the development of science . Marx's thesis was not at all original . The so - called scientific philosophy ...
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... Marx's hypothesis and his conclusions on the subject , the revolution would occur first of all in the highly ... Marx's suc- cessors . They had no less right to this claim than the Com- munists , who cited Marx as the source of their ...
... Marx's hypothesis and his conclusions on the subject , the revolution would occur first of all in the highly ... Marx's suc- cessors . They had no less right to this claim than the Com- munists , who cited Marx as the source of their ...
Contents
Origins | 1 |
Character of the Revolution | 15 |
The New Class | 37 |
Copyright | |
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