If you have ever stumbled across a scanned PDF of Nova Klasa online, you have touched a piece of forbidden dynamite. But is it still relevant today, 60+ years later? Absolutely. Here is why this thin volume remains a masterclass in political sociology. Djilas’s central thesis is brutally simple yet profoundly radical. He argued that the Communist revolutions in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe had not created a classless society. Instead, they had merely replaced one ruling class with another.
Critics on the left often point out that Djilas was bitter after losing a power struggle with Tito. Fair enough. But ad hominem attacks don't invalidate his observation. If anything, being inside the kitchen gave him the perfect view of where the filth was hidden. You don't have to agree with Djilas’s solution (he leaned toward a sort of democratic socialism in his later years) to appreciate his diagnosis.
Few political dissidents have had the unique vantage point of Milovan Djilas. He was not a capitalist critic looking in from the outside, nor a disillusioned writer observing from a distance. He was the "Prince of Montenegro"—the chief propagandist and the heir apparent to Josip Broz Tito in communist Yugoslavia.
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