 the new class is also used as a polemic term by critics of countries that followed the soviet type of communism to describe the privileged ruling class of bureaucrats and communist party functionaries which arose in these states. generally, the group known in the soviet union as the nomenklatura conforms to the theory of the new class. earlier the term was applied to other emerging strata of the society. milovan Äilas' new class theory was also used extensively by anti-communist commentators in the west, in their criticism of the communist states during the cold war. new class is also used as a term in late 1960s post-industrial sociology. ==Äilas' new class==  a theory of the new class was developed by milovan Äilas the vice president of the federal people's republic of yugoslavia under josip broz tito, who participated with tito in the yugoslav people's liberation war, but was later purged by him as Äilas began to advocate democratic and egalitarian ideals (which he believed were more in line with the way socialism and communism should look like). however, there were also personal antagonisms between the two men and tito felt Äilas undermined his leadership. the theory of the new class can be considered against the theories of certain ruling communists, such as joseph stalin, who argued that their revolutions and/or social reforms would result in the extinction of any ruling class as such.{{cite book|title=the political thought of joseph stalin: a study in twentieth century revolutionary patriotism|publisher=routledge|isbn=978-0700717491|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gy6bww_tlf0c&pg=pa138&lpg=pa138&dq=classless+society+joseph+stalin&source=bl&ots=88zmhr2pmm&sig=ioy2dy5xfcyfgqutfc2q31jnlcs&hl=en&sa=x&ei=vlhoujbda4g89qsctygada&ved=0cikbeogbmak#v=onepage&q=classless%20society%20joseph%20stalin&f=false|author=erik van ree|edition=1st|page=141|format=hardcover|date=october 28, 2002|quote=..."in essence" there was "no dictatorship of the proletariat now either. we have a soviet democracy" the reason was tha
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