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However, history favored Djilas. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, archives from the GDR, Poland, and the USSR confirmed his core thesis: Nomenklatura lists (privileged party positions) were heritable. Children of party officials were vastly more likely to become party officials. The "class" was real.
“The new class... acquires its strength, its privileges, its power, and its wealth from the administration of nationalized and socialized property.” — Milovan Djilas Milovan Djilas Nova Klasa.pdf
The New Class helped legitimize dissident critiques across the Eastern bloc and influenced Cold War intellectual debates. It fed Western liberal and conservative thinking about communism while also inspiring noncommunist left critiques that sought democratic socialism. Djilas’s writings contributed directly to his political downfall and imprisonment, which underscored his claims about intolerance to internal critique. However, history favored Djilas
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