He argued that while the system claimed to be a dictatorship of the proletariat, it was actually a dictatorship of the Party bureaucracy. This new class—the party officials, the managers, the police chiefs—derived its power not from capital, but from "collective ownership."
The Intellectual Rebellion of Milovan Djilas: A Critique of "The New Class" Milovan Djilas’s The New Class cap N o v a milovan djilas nova klasapdf
Djilas, a former high-ranking Yugoslav official, argued that Communist revolutions created a new political bureaucracy that controlled nationalized property. He argued that while the system claimed to
He looked at the privileges he and his comrades enjoyed. They didn't own the factories legally, like the capitalists did, but they controlled them. They lived in the best villas, vacationed at exclusive resorts, and shopped in special stores stocked with Western goods that the ordinary worker could never access. They didn't own the factories legally, like the
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