: The system demands absolute uniformity of viewpoint, including philosophical and moral views, creating what Đilas called a "brutal type of tyranny" over individual conscience. Stages of Communism : Đilas identified three phases: the revolutionary (Lenin), the (Stalin), and the non-dogmatic (collective leadership after Stalin). National Communism
Djilas argued that in every communist revolution, the proletariat does not liberate itself. Instead, a specific group—the Communist Party—organizes the revolution. After the revolution succeeds, this party does not dissolve the state (as Marx predicted). Instead, they become the state. Milovan Djilas Nova Klasa.pdf