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Having just read The New Class, I should like to nominate Milovan Djilas...
Communist Everyman. Politically, Kolakowski cannot speak with an authority comparable to Yugoslavian Dissenter Milovan Djilas. But intellectually, he strikes more deeply at the Communist mystique. In his Nowa Kultura series, Kolakowski casts himself in the role of a Communist Everyman. First, he asks why so many party intellectuals have withdrawn from activity and buried themselves in non-political work and a general effort to avoid responsibility. The answer, he says, is that the party is driving its supporters into passivity by denying them the right of dissent...
...Milovan Djilas in The New Class
...tiny courtroom in the little town of Sremska Mitrovica, 42 miles from Belgrade, Milovan Djilas went on trial last week on charges of creating hostile propaganda against Communism and the Yugoslav government. Djilas' trial had been inevitable ever since The New Class, his outspoken book indicting the new ruling class produced by Communism, was smuggled out of Yugoslavia and published in the U.S. two months ago (TIME, Sept. 9). And just as the trial was inevitable, so was its outcome...
...trial lasted just one day. The verdict of guilty was returned the following morning, and Milovan Djilas was sentenced to seven more years at hard labor. After the verdict was read, Djilas rose and started to protest not the verdict or the sentence, but the court's attempt to make it appear that he had had an open trial. He was not permitted to finish. Two guards hustled him out of the courtroom and back to prison...