Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Molovan Djilas - The New Class

Djilas describes the way that communism has created a totalitarian oligarchy contrary to its idealistic goal of collective rule.



Rise of the Political Bureaucracy


The status of the Communist Party as the backbone of politics, economics, and society gives it complete control over the citizenry


Party members become the ruling class and have almost limitless power


“the so-called ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ inevitably evolves into the dictatorship of the leaders



Individual Freedom


Individual freedom must be in the interest of the socialist system, so the freedom of individuals is thus completely subject to party leaders


Violations of human rights can be justified by their subjugation to the state’s wellbeing


Parliaments and other institutions that claim to represent the citizenry are merely perfunctory



Economics


The communist economic system is designed to maintain the party’s power by putting the economy under the control of the state


Though originally party leaders steered the economy towards idealistic and communal goals, their aims quickly devolved into selfish ones

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