Short Handbook of Communist Ideology: Synopsis of the 'Osnovy Marksizma-Leninizma' with Complete Index

ISBN-13: 9789401035866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 111 str.

H. Fleischer

Opis

We have once again decided to publish in our series a source-text for the study of Communist ideology. This synopsis of Principles of Marxism Leninism 1 (published at the end of 1959 and widely distributed in the Soviet Union) appears as a sequel to that of the Principles of Marxist Philosphy which I published in 1959 as The Dogmatic Principles of Soviet Philosphy. This book is a corporate work, done by some forty Soviet philosophers, sociologists, economists, Party-theoreticians and propa gandists, under the direction ofO. V. Kuusinen (member of the Praesidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). Except for a few clarifications, we have restricted ourselves to pre senting the most important parts of the original text in an original translation which provides the material, in an authentic and handy 2 form, for our Institute's courses in Sovietology. In comparison to the other parts, the philosophical portions (Sections 1 and 2) have been held to a minimum since they repeat, for the most part, material which is already available in the synopsis of the Principles of Marxist Philosophy. I wish to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for their support which has made possible the research of our Institute as well as the preparation of the present work. J. M. BOCHENSKI 1 The original Russian title is: Osnovy marksizma-leninizma. Ueebnoe posobie (Text book), Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo politieeskoj literatury (State Publishing House for Political Literature), Moskva, 1959,774 pages, 300 000 copies.

Spis treści

First Section The Philosophic Principles of the Marxist-Leninist World-View.- 1 Philosophic Materialism.- 2 The Materialist Dialectic.- Quantitative and qualitative changes.- Oppositions as source of development.- Development from the lower to the higher.- 3 Epistemology.- Second Section The Materialist Conception of History.- 4 The Essence of Historical Materialism.- Means of production as the material foundation of the life of society.- Base and superstructure.- History as the development and dissolution of social-economic formations.- Historical laws and the conscious activity of men.- 5 Classes, Class-War and the State.- 6 The Role of the Popular Masses and of the Individual in History.- 7 Social Progress.- Third Section The Political Economy of Capitalism.- 8 Pre-Monopolistic Capitalism.- Capitalist exploitation.- Economic crises of over-production.- The universal law and historical trend of capitalist accumulation.- 9 Imperialism as the Highest and last Stage of Capitalism.- Monopolistic capitalism.- Parasitic capitalism.- Dying capitalism.- The beginning of the general crisis of capitalism.- 10 Imperialism Today.- Government-monopoly capitalism.- Militarization of the economy.- Has capitalism been freed from economic crises?.- The deepening and spread of class-conflicts.- The last rung in capitalism’s historical ladder.- Fourth Section Theory and Tactics of the International Communist Movement.- 11 The World-Wide, Historical Mission of the Working Class.- The community of interests of the working class and all workers.- Internationalism.- The working class as the hope of progressive humanity.- 13 The Marxist-Leninist Party and its Role in the Class-War of the Worker.- Democratic centralism.- The living union of the Party with the masses.- Marxist-Leninist politics as a science and an art.- The fight against opportunism of the right and sectarianism.- 14 The Policy of the Unity of Action of the Working Class with all Democratic Forces among the People.- 15 The Coalition of the Working Class and the Peasantry under Capitalism.- 16 The Movement of the Peoples for National Liberation from Colonialism.- 17 The Fight of the Peoples of Capitalist Lands for the Conservation of their Sovereignty.- 18 The Fight for the Defence of Democracy in Bourgeois Lands.- 19 The Danger of War and the Peoples’ Fight for Peace.- 20 On the Different Forms of the Transition to Socialist Revolution.- The ripening of the conditions for the proletarian revolution.- The passing of power into the hands of the working class.- Fifth Section Doctrine on Socialism and Communism.- 21 The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Proletarian Democracy.- The necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat.- A new type of democracy.- The Marxist-Leninist Party during the dictatorship of the proletariat.- Diverse forms of the dictatorship of the proletariat.- 22 The Main Economic Tasks during the Period of Transition from Capitalism to Socialism.- Socialist nationalization.- Cooperatives.- Socialist industrialization.- The results of the period of transition.- 23 The Basic Traits of the Socialist Mode of Production.- Social property and its forms.- The main object of socialist production.- The planned development of the national economy.- Work under socialism.- Widened socialist reproduction.- 24 The Social-Political and Cultural Phaenotype of Socialist Society.- The structure of socialist society.- Socialist democracy.- The culture of socialist society.- Socialism and the individual.- The motive forces of the development of socialist society.- 25 The Socialist World-System.- 26 The Period of Transition from Socialism to Communism.- The general line of the Party.- The creation of the material-technical base of Communism.- The overcoming of class-differences.- Communist education of the worker.- The development of socialist democracy.- The international significance of Communist construction in the U.S.S.R..- 27 On Communist Society.- From each according to his capabilities.- To each according to his needs.- The free man in a free society.- Peace between peoples.- View into the distant future of Communism.- Subject-Index.