Milovan Djilas
Milovan Djilas was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist, and author. He was a key figure in the Yugoslav government after World War II until his expulsion from the Communist Party in 1954 for his criticism of the party's leadership. Djilas became an influential dissident, writing extensively about his experiences within the communist system and his growing disillusionment with it. His most famous work, 'The New Class,' criticizes the emergence of a ruling elite within the Communist Party, which he argued betrayed the original intentions of the revolution. Djilas's writings on communism, socialism, and political authority have been influential in studies of Eastern European history and political thought.
Books
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1. An Analysis Of The Communist System
The book provides a critical examination of the communist system from an insider's perspective. The author, a former high-ranking official in a communist government, offers a detailed critique of the system's theoretical and practical shortcomings. He discusses the inherent contradictions between the ideology's promises of equality and the reality of a new class of bureaucratic elites that emerge to control the state apparatus. The work delves into the mechanisms of party control, the suppression of individual freedoms, and the economic inefficiencies that plagued communist states, ultimately questioning the sustainability and moral legitimacy of the system itself.
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