The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System"The New Class" created a sensation 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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Page 44
... material goods - then membership in the new party class , or political bureaucracy , is reflected in a larger income in material goods and privileges than society should normally grant for such functions . In prac- tice , the ownership ...
... material goods - then membership in the new party class , or political bureaucracy , is reflected in a larger income in material goods and privileges than society should normally grant for such functions . In prac- tice , the ownership ...
Page 60
... material and other ventures that no other class was ever able to do . Since it possesses the nation's goods , the new class is in a posi- tion to devote itself religiously to the aims it has set and to direct all the forces of the ...
... material and other ventures that no other class was ever able to do . Since it possesses the nation's goods , the new class is in a posi- tion to devote itself religiously to the aims it has set and to direct all the forces of the ...
Page 108
... material goods are monopolized by one group . The labor force is indirectly the property of that group , although not completely so , since the worker is an individual human being who himself uses up part of his labor . Speaking in the ...
... material goods are monopolized by one group . The labor force is indirectly the property of that group , although not completely so , since the worker is an individual human being who himself uses up part of his labor . Speaking in the ...
Contents
Origins | 1 |
Character of the Revolution | 15 |
The New Class | 37 |
Copyright | |
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