Milovan Djilas Nova Klasa.pdf |top|

Milovan Đilas's 1957 work, The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System , argues that socialist revolutions created a "new class" of party bureaucrats who control nationalized property, replacing private ownership with a monopoly on power. This elite, as described by the former Yugoslav official, perpetuates a totalitarian system of exploitation rather than a worker's paradise, while stifling intellectual freedom and economic innovation. The full text is available via Internet Archive .

: Detailed research on Djilas’s transition from a high-ranking Yugoslav official to a prominent dissident is documented in this Doctoral Thesis from the University of East Anglia Chapter Summaries Milovan Djilas Nova Klasa.pdf