He finished elementary school in his native village, and then attended the Third Belgrade Gymnasium.

Under the influence of his left-wing father and brother Moma, who was already one of the leaders of the party organization at the Faculty of Medicine, he joined the youth revolutionary movement.

In 1937, as a pupil of the eighth grade of the gymnasium, he was arrested for communist activity and after three weeks in custody he was thrown out of school.

At the time of the rise of Slobodan Milošević to power, he clashed with his politics and soon retired, in 1986.

In the later years he was one of the sharper critics of Slobodan Milošević's regime and Mirjana Marković, whose uncle he was.