SHORT HANDBOOK OF COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

FIRST SECTION

THE PHILOSOPHIC PRINCIPLES OF THE MARXIST‑LENINIST

WORLD‑VIEW

 

Chapter 1     Philosophic Materialism                                             1

Chapter 2     The Materialist Dialectic                                            2

                     Quantitative and qualitative changes                         3

                     Oppositions as source of development                       3

                     Development from the lower to the higher                 4

Chapter 3     Epistemology                                                             5

 

SECOND SECTION

THE MATERIALIST CONCEPTION OF HISTORY

 

Chapter 4     The Essence of Historical Materialism                      7

                     Means of production as the material foundation of the

                     life of society                                                              7

                     Base and superstructure                                            8

                     History as the development and dissolution of social­

                     economic formations                                                 8

                     Historical laws and the conscious activity of men     11

 

Chapter 5     Classes, Class‑War and the State                              12

Chapter 6     The Role of the Popular Masses and of the Indi­vidual

                      in History                                                                 15

Chapter 7     Social Progress                                                          16

                           

THIRD SECTION

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CAPITALISM

 

Chapter 8     Pre‑Monopolistic Capitalism                                    18

                     Capitalist exploitation                                               18

                     Economic crises of over‑production                         20

                     The universal law and historical trend of capitalist

                     accumulation                                                            20

 

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Chapter 9    Imperialism as the Highest and last Stage of

                    Capitalism                                                                 22

                    Monopolistic capitalism                                             22

                    Parasitic capitalism                                                   23

                    Dying capitalism                                                       24

                    The beginning of the general crisis of capitalism      24

Chapter 10  Imperialism Today                                                    25

                    Government‑monopoly capitalism                            26

                          Militarization of the economy                                    27

                    Has capitalism been freed from economic crises?    27

                    The deepening and spread of class‑conflicts             28

                    The last rung in capitalism's historical ladder           30

 

FOURTH SECTION

THEORY AND TACTICS OF THE INTERNATIONAL

COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

 

Chapter 11  The World‑Wide, Historical Mission of the Working

                    Class                                                                          31

                    The community of interests of the working class and all

                    workers                                                                      32

                    Internationalism                                                        33

                    The working class as the hope of progressive humanity 33

 

Chapter 13  The Marxist‑Leninist Party and its Role in the Class­

                    War of the Worker                                                    34

                    Democratic centralism                                              36

                    The living union of the Party with the masses           37

                    Marxist‑Leninist politics as a science and an art       38

                    The fight against opportunism of the right and

                    sec­tarianism                                                              39

Chapter 14  The Policy of the Unity of Action of the Working

                    Class with all Democratic Forces among the People    40

Chapter 15  The Coalition of the Working Class and the Peasant­ry

                    under Capitalism                                                       40

Chapter 16  The Movement of the Peoples for National Liber­ation

                    from Colonialism                                                      41

 

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Chapter 17  The Fight of the Peoples of Capitalist Lands for the

                    Conservation of their Sovereignty                            42

Chapter 18  The Fight for the Defence of Democracy in Bourgeois

                    Lands                                                                        43

Chapter 19  The Danger of War and the Peoples' Fight for Peace   44

Chapter 20  On the Different Forms of the Transition to Socialist

                    Revolution                                                                46

                    The ripening of the conditions for the proletarian

                    revolution                                                                  48

                    The passing of power into the hands of the working class          50

 

FIFTH SECTION

DOCTRINE ON SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM

 

Chapter 21   The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Proletarian

                     Democracy                                                               53

                     The necessity of the dictatorship of the proletariat    53

                     A new type of democracy                                          55

                     The Marxist‑Leninist Party during the dictatorship of

                     the proletariat                                                           56

                     Diverse forms of the dictatorship of the proletariat  58

Chapter 22   The Main Economic Tasks during the Period of

                     Transition from Capitalism to Socialism                  60

                     Socialist nationalization                                            60

                     Cooperatives                                                             60

                     Socialist industrialization                                          62

                     The results of the period of transition                       63

Chapter 23   The Basic Traits of the Socialist Mode of Production 63

                     Social property and its forms                                    64

                     The main object of socialist production                    65

                     The planned development of the national economy  66

                     Work under socialism                                               67

                     Widened socialist reproduction                                 68

Chapter 24   The Social‑Political and Cultural Phaenotype of

                     Socialist Society                                                       68

                     The structure of socialist society                               68

                     Socialist democracy                                                  71

 

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                     The culture of socialist society                                 73

                     Socialism and the individual                                    74

                     The motive forces of the development of socialist

                       society                                                                    76

 

Chapter 25  The Socialist World‑System                                     77

Chapter 26  The Period of Transition from Socialism to

                    Communism                                                              79

                    The general line of the Party                                     80

                    The creation of the material‑technical base of

                    Communism                                                              80

                    The overcoming of class‑differences                         82

                    Communist education of the worker                         84

                    The development of socialist democracy                   85

                    The international significance of Communist

                    construction in the U.S.S.R.                                      86

Chapter 27  On Communist Society                                            88

                    From each according to his capabilities                   88

                    To each according to his needs                                 89

                    The free man in a free society                                   89

                    Peace between peoples                                             90

                    View into the distant future of Communism              90

SUBJECT‑INDEX                                                                      92

 

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SOURCE: Short Handbook of Communist Ideology (Synposis of the Osnovy markizsma-leninizma with complete index), translated by T. J. Blakeley, edited by Helmut Fleischer. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1965. xiii, 98 p. (Sovietica) Table of Contents.


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