Prospects for a Change in the Communist World

The new political thinking of Milovan Djilas is marked by a rather surprising contradiction.

The new political thinking of Milovan Djilas, as set forth in The New Class, is marked by a rather surprising contradiction. On the one hand he prophesies the “complete disintegration” of Communism and states that the unity of the “world communist movement is irremediably compromised”; on the other hand he asserts that the changes which have occurred since the death of Stalin have altered not at all “the nature of the system,” that national communi...