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Review: Milovan Djilas, The New Class (1957) Milovan Djilas’s The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System
Property Control: While private property is abolished, the new class "uses, enjoys, and disposes of" all nationalized property, treating it as their collective ownership. milovan djilas nova klasa pdf 86
While pagination varies slightly between publishers (Praeger, Harcourt Brace, and later reprints), the canonical 1957 edition (Harcourt, Brace & World) uses page 86 as the dramatic climax of the book’s first major thesis. On this page, Djilas delivers his most quoted, most devastating lines regarding the nature of communist ownership. Review: Milovan Djilas, The New Class (1957) Milovan
, originally published in 1957. A high-ranking Yugoslav official turned dissident, Djilas used this text to expose the emergence of a new ruling elite within Communist regimes. Core Thesis: The Rise of the "New Class" On this page, Djilas delivers his most quoted,
Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many expected Djilas’s work to become obsolete. Instead, The New Class has seen a revival. Political scientists use Djilas’s framework (and the logic found on page 86) to describe the rise of crony capitalism in post-Soviet states, the nomenklatura systems in Asia, and even the managerial elite in Western corporatism.
: This is a direct link to the full PDF of the 1957 edition.