The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System

This is a book on Communism by a man who used to be one of its heroes. One of the greatest political documents of our time--perhaps the most important in its force and effectiveness--this explosive indictment may be regarded as political dynamite in any Communist area or any country where Communism poses a threat to society and genuine progress. Often using the dialectical method so much a part of Communist thinking, Djilas presents his irrefutable argument proving why Communism developed the way it did, and why it cannot, under any circumstances, reach any of its socialist goals; why, on the contrary, it cannot escape its own contradictions between Utopian theory and cruel reality, between a theoretical workers paradise and the actual slave state--where the ruling class devours itself while holding down the masses in abject material and intellectual poverty. In the end, what this book provides is not only a denunciation of Communism, but stirring proof of the fact that anyone with intellectual honesty and personal integrity must turn away from it.