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New Class:analysis Of Communist System: An Analysis Of The Communist System (Harvest/Hbj Book) Paperback – December 30, 1982

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This classic by an associate of Yugoslavia's Tito created a sensation when it was published in 1957 because it was the first time that a ranking Communist had publicly analyzed his disillusionment with the system.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good insider analysis of Communism
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2020
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A good Insider's analysis (from a member of the communist elite) is of how communism / (socialism as the eastern bloc countries like to call it) really works. Or mostly how it does not work. I spent my youth in Communist Hungary, and I was a true believer until I came across this book, which helped me to clearly see what was really going on. Back then, it was a banned book, with a jail term associated when caught reading it.
Great writer, and an interesting person.

One key insight for me was, that it is not the formal ownership, but the control of the means of production that really matters. Karl Marx, in his day did not quite get this right. Djilas points out the existence and special position of an "above the law" elite ruling class this type of system has. for those, who are living in a society organize don marxist principles, it can be hard to get past the propaganda. After all, the Marxist ideas seem more fair than the traditional, unfettered Capitalism. But as it turns out, the devil is in the details. In practice, all Marxist experiments deteriorated into a group of thughs and their friends and relatives taking most of the rewards, and running the economy in a wasteful and inefficient way. Some of the ruling classes got smart enough to pull back a bit and let everybody prosper, as long as they do not challenge the power structure or legitimacy of the rulers. (The Chineses model, although we could argue if that can be even called communist these days) . In any case the book is worth reading, esp. if you want a better understanding of this part of human history. He will provide the context for you.

Some familiarity with the Marxist ideas (the means of production, capital, the value and fair cost of labor, profit, extra-profit, the concept of exploitation etc. ) would be useful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars More Pertinent than Ever
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It's billed as a critique of Communism by a disillusioned insider, which is true as far as it goes. But in criticizing Communism, Djilas has written a critique of totalitarianism more generally, and totalitarianism is very much still with us. Consider this passage from his chapter on "Tyranny over the Mind."

"A citizen of the Communist system lives oppressed by the constant pangs of his conscience, and the fear that he has transgressed. He is always fearful that he will have to demonstrate that he is not an enemy of socialism, just as in the Middle Ages a man constantly had to show his devotion to the Church."

Change one adjective and one noun, and it's spot on modern campus and Internet life. Buy it before Amazon catches on. And remember

"The power of reality and the power of life have always been stronger than any kind of brutal force, and more real than any theory."
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5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful Marxist critique of Communism
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Milovan Djilas, a Marxist critic of Communism from Yugoslavia, published The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System in 1957. Djilas used Marx's theory and progression of history to underline a fundamental problem: most or all of the societies that underwent leftist revolutions were not fully capitalist ones and even to a great extent feudalistic like Russia. As a result, Marx had been wrong on a key point of predicting that the advanced capitalist regions like North America or Western Europe were to be the first movers to socialism. In many of these new Communist countries the leaders themselves understood that their society was too backward and impoverished for socialism and so they developed their nation through an economic system called state capitalism - a term many believe best describes Communist nations of past and present. The attempt to rush through this phase of Marxist history had failed as Djilas argued, and a new bureaucratic class had formed signifying a lack of democracy and socialism.

Djilas goes in great detail to solidify his description of the "new class," which involves everything from using Marxism as a form of religious dogma to increasing their personal wages like CEOs in capitalist countries. As mentioned, the new class had formed because these societies based themselves on state capitalism to industrialize and modernize themselves. One critical aspect of this involved highly centralized planning to industrialize a nation quicker than a market could, especially during Stalin's rule regardless of how much death and suffering was involved. Djilas explains that such intense centralization and capitalist behavior in the society gave birth to a bureaucratic and oligarchic class unaccountable to the vast majority of citizens living in Communist nations, a ruling class just like the slaveholders in ancient Rome, the land barons in medieval Europe, or capitalists in the United States.

Overall, this is a masterpiece of Marxism. Some readers may be confused to learn that this is purely a Marxist critique of 20th century Communism and that Djilas himself was a socialist and Marxist. This is amusing to mention considering he received attention from right-wing circles. Far from surrendering to capitalism, Djilas paves the way for genuine socialism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A most to read
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2023
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This book offers a detailed description of what communism is all about and not the “equality,improvement for people’s life “ as day dreamers belief.
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5.0 out of 5 stars New Class:Analysis Of Communist System
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The book is a different print than the one shown on the picture, but it is in a good condition.
It was delivered in time I'm happy with it.
The book is an exciting reading on the mechanisms of the communist system of the former Yugoslavia, and helps to understand how it was operated. It is written about communists, but helps to understand how oligarchs emerge and conclusions can be extended to all types of societies.
I recommend it to everybody who like to understand motives behind actions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The new class
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2010
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Written by one of Tito's chief leaders who was with Tito from the days of WWII when their Partisans won out over other factions as a result of a civil war fought concurrently with WWII. After the war he helped build the Communist system, of which he was an adherent. Follow the man into disillusionment as he watches a new class of oppressor muddle his idealism; then he ultimately abandons the core principles of communism. As valuable and as useful today as the day it was written.
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