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THE THEORY OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISMThe fundamentals
V. G. Afanasyev
FROM A UTOPIA TO A SCIENCE1. Utopian Socialism and Its Place in History2. The Evolution of Socialism from a Utopia to a Science. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels3. The Leninist Phase of Scientific CommunismTheoretician of Scientific CommunismLenin’s Theory of Socialist RevolutionLeader of the World Communist MovementFighfer for the Purity of MarxismNATURE OF THE MODERN EPOCH. GROWTH OF THE SOCIALIST SYSTEM INTO THE DECISIVE FACTOR OF WORLD DEVELOPMENT
1. The Modern Epoch2. Emergence and Development of the World Socialist System3. Decisive Force of World Development
CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM AND THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKING-CLASSMOVEMENT
The New, Third Stage of the General CrisisState-Monopoly Regulation and the Working ClassCapitalism Versus Man
Scale of the Strike StruggleCombining Economic and Political Forms of StruggleEnlargement of the Social BasisIndissoluble Bond Between Democratic and Socialist TasksClosing the Split Is a Major Task of the Working-Class Movement
4. Present-Day Communist MovementAt the Head of the Forces of RevolutionStrategy and TacticsGeneral Line
NATIONAL LIBERATION REVOLUTIONS
1. Disintegration of the Imperialist Colonial SystemCollapse of the Colonial System—a Feature of the Contemporary EpochSignificance of the National Liberation MovementThe Danger of Neo-Colonialism
2. The National Liberation Revolution and Its Driving ForcesDriving Forces of the National Liberation Revolution
3. Economic Independence4. Two Possible Ways of Development—Capitalist and Non-CapitalistExperience of Non–Capitalist DevelopmentSubstance of Non– Capitalist DevelopmentLiberated Peoples Choose SocialismFactors Facilitating the Transition to the Non-Capitalist Road
THE WORLD REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS AND PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE1. Marxism-Leninism on Just and Unjust Wars and Unjust WarsJust and Unjust Wars
2. Peaceful CoexistenceThe Class Struggle and Peaceful CoexistenceThe Ideological Struggle and Peaceful Coexistence
SOCIALISM, FIRST PHASE OF COMMUNIST SOCIETYIndispensability of a Period of Transition1. General Laws and Diversify of the Forms of Socialist ConstructionEconomic ReformsReforms in National RelationsCultural Revolution2. The Transition Period and the Non-Capitalist Road of Development
3. Socialist SocietyEconomy of SocialismPolitical Organisation
SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION OF COMMUNIST CONSTRUCTIONObjectivity and the Concrete SituationEfficiency and OptimalityPeople’s Interests and RequirementsThe Main LinkDemocratic Centralism3. Subject of Administration4. Improvement of the System of Administration—an Important Condition for the Success of Communist Construction
MATERIAL AND TECHNICAL BASIS OF COMMUNISM
2. Features and Ways of Building the Material and Technical Basis of CommunismAutomation and MechanisationPower Engineering IndustryChemicalisationAgricultural Production
3. Science as a Direct Productive ForceThe Future of Science Is the Future of ProductionAll the Potentialities of Science for Production
4. Man and TechnologyWill Machines Replace Man?Demands Made of Man by MachinesTechnology, Man and Nature
5. Communism and LabourThe Conditions for Turning Labour into a Vital NecessityCommunist Division of LabourIncentives for WorkDeveloping the Personality Through Creative WorkLeisure Time and the Development of the Individual
FROM SOCIALIST TO COMMUNIST SOCIAL RELATIONS
CapabilityFrom Each According to His AbilityNeedsTo Each According to His NeedsThe Road To Economic Equality
Towards a Single People’s OwnershipSurmounting the Essential Distinctions Between Town and CountrySurmounting the Essential Distinctions Between Mental and Physical LabourDevelopment and Drawing Together of Nations
The Ability to Administer—a Feature of the New ManExtension of Socialist DemocracyEnhancement of the Role of Mass OrganisationsGrowth of the Role of the C.P.S.U.Withering Away of the State
MOULDING THE NEW MAN
Fundamental Principles of EducationMeans of Communist Education
2. Spiritual Culture and the Advancement of the IndividualFormation of a Scientific World OutlookAtheistic EducationStruggle Against Bourgeois Ideology4. Education Through LabourCore of Communist EducationInculcation of Respect for All Useful WorkCommunist MoralityBasic Moral Principles of the Builder of CommunismSoviet Patriotism and Proletarian internationalismSurvivals of Capitalism and Ways and Means of Surmounting ThemMorality and KnowledgeNeeds As a Factor of Man’s BehaviourFormation of Needs as a Principal Means of Moral Education
6. Aesthetic Education7. Physical ImprovementFreedom of the Individual under CommunismFreedom and Responsibility of the IndividualCommunism—Embodiment of Humanism