Nikola Milošević (politician)

Nikola Milošević
Nikola Milošević, 1999
Born	(1929-04-17)April 17, 1929 Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died	January 24, 2007(2007-01-24) (aged 77) Belgrade, Serbia
Occupation	Philosopher, literary critic, writer, politician, professor
Nationality	Serbian
Children	1

Nikola Milošević, PhD (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Милошевић) (April 17, 1929 in Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia – January 24, 2007 in Belgrade, Serbia) was a Serbian writer, political philosopher, literary critic, and politician.

He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He was professor of Literary Theory at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology since 1969. He became a correspondent member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1983 and a full member in 1994. He was president of the Miloš Crnjanski Endowment in Belgrade.

In 1968 during a big student revolt in the streets of Belgrade, he daily criticized official press coverage of the protests in front of hundreds of protesting students. For this reason he was denounced by semi-official newspaper Politika. He was a leading anti-Marxist intellectual in Serbia during the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1970s he criticized severely Vladimir Lenin's involvement in pre-revolutionary robberies and this had powerful echo and undermined pro-Marxist intelligentsia in Yugoslavia that supported the government of Josip Broz Tito. In his 1985 book Marxism and Jesuitism he severely criticized Lenin and Joseph Stalin, which prompted Soviet officials to unsuccessfully demand his removal from the University of Belgrade. He continued his anti-communist involvement during the rule of Slobodan Milošević (1990–2000) and was eventually banned from entering the Faculty of Philology building in 1998 by a government-appointed dean.