Milovan Djilas Nova Klasa.pdf -

The New Class is a masterpiece of political dissent. It stripped the Soviet-style regimes of their moral legitimacy before the rest of the world realized their economic bankruptcy.

It forces a question that modern citizens—whether in Beijing, Moscow, or Washington—should still ask: If a class is defined by its control over the primary means of production, and today the primary means of production is data, surveillance, and administrative power... who is the New Class now? Milovan Djilas Nova Klasa.pdf

The New Class is the book that got him imprisoned. Published in the West in 1957 while he was still a high-ranking official, it represents the first thorough, systematic dismantling of the Communist system by one of its own architects. It remains one of the most important political texts of the 20th century. The New Class is a masterpiece of political dissent