OBITUARIES Milovan Djilas

From: The Independent - London | Date: May 6, 1995| Author: Jack Adrian | Copyright information

To those of a certain sensibility, and age, Milovan Djilas gave Marxism a moral perspective absent from the Communism of Stalin, writes Jack Adrian {further to the obituary by Christopher Russell, 21 April}.

Reading The New Class (in the early 1960s in an American pocket compendium Essential Works of Marxism), one suddenly became aware that socialist theory was not the sole prerogative of bullying and obsessive apparatchiks tied to a mass-murderer. It was a perceptive and liberating bo...

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