SHORT
HANDBOOK OF COMMUNIST
IDEOLOGY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE PHILOSOPHIC PRINCIPLES OF THE MARXIST‑LENINIST
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
IX
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
X
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
XI
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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