Nova Klasapdf | Milovan Djilas

In theory, communism abolishes private property so that the working class owns the means of production. Djilas argued this was a legal fiction. While the state technically "owned" the factories and land, a specific group of people controlled them. In sociology and economics, control equals ownership. Defining the "New Class"

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Published in 1957 in the US, the book was a political earthquake. It described internal communist power structures and the lavish privileges of communist elites, making it the first devastating insider's account of the Soviet system. The Yugoslav authorities responded with fury, sentencing Djilas to nine years in prison in a show trial for his "heresy", but the book became an international bestseller, translated into dozens of languages and circulated widely in samizdat form. In theory, communism abolishes private property so that