One of the most inspiring and at the same time tragic documents of our time - a historical act that marks an entire era.~Using the dialectical method which gave Marx's "Das Kapital" its relentless power, Milovan Djilas, expelled from the communist community, delivered his critique of communism.~Both writers have in common the burning earnestness, the Messianic sense of having to fulfill a mission and the passionate hatred of the evil that the society from which they emerged contained.~Can the comparison be taken even further?~Is THE NEW CLASS going to be to Communism what DAS KAPITAL has been to capitalism?~It is the anti-Communist manifesto; irrefutably Djilas shows why Communism can go no other way and wherefore it can, under no circumstances, achieve any of its socialist aims.