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Quotes from Soviet Encyclopedia (1958), Philosophical Dictionary (1958), Program of the Communist Party (1975):
- Anti-Communism is the ultimate weapon of capitalism, it is a reflection of decaying bourgeois ideology.
- Art is a special form of philosophy; the highest aesthetic ideal is expressed in the philosophy of the working class that struggles for Communist renovation of the world.
- Private property - a dangerous form of property because it leads to all sorts of abuses. Under Communism private property will lose its sense because people's needs will be satisfied through special consumption funds.
- NATO - an aggressive military block of Capitalist countries. Its poisonous arrow is aimed against socialist countries and national-liberation movements in the world.
- Orthodox Religion - an anti-scientific ideology, enemy of the revolutionary movement. The Orthodox Church was outlawed after the Great October Revolution in 1917. At present the O. C. tries to adapt to Socialist reality in order to recruit new believers. To this end, it tells lies about the history and deeds of the Soviet State.
- Proletariat - the main class of the Capitalist society deprived of the means of production. Working people have to sell themselves to make both ends meet. Under the development of capitalism, the class of Capitalists is decaying while the class of proletariat is getting stronger and stronger.
- Psychoanalysis - a typical symptom of dying capitalism. One more chain in the vicious circle of fooling the working people around. Avoids people from conscious struggle against oppressors into the world of illusions.
- Racism - an official ideology of the United States of America. It is demonstrated towards the black population as to inferior people. Only in the USSR and other socialist countries the rapid development of used-to-be-backward nations proves the advantages of socialism in comparison with capitalism where national minorities are oppressed.
- Leo Tolstoy - a controversial Russian writer: on one side, he was an advocate of the most reactionary and Utopian ideas, but on the other side he expressed the protest of the proletariat against social inequality and oppression.
- Peace Corps (USA) - a supplementary CIA weapon of economic and political interference into the life and activities of the USSR and other socialist countries. The Peace Corps is used by American secret services for clandestine and direct penetration into the work of many organizations. Its "volunteers" collect classified information.
- Capitalism - a social and economic formation that replaced feudalism. The basis of capitalism is private property for means of production and exploitation of hired labor. The main law of capitalist production is to get surplus value. The main features of capitalism are industrial anarchy, periodical economic crises, chronic unemployment and poverty of working people. The main contradiction of capitalism is between the social character of labor and private character of appropriation which leads to antagonistic relations between the major lasses of the society proletariat and bourgeoisie. The culmination point of struggle between the proletariat and oppressors is the Socialist Revolution.
- Fascism-is a political movement that appeared in capitalist countries under general crisis. It reflects the interests of the most reactionary and aggressive forces of imperialist bourgeoisie. When fascism comes to power it becomes a terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary forces of monopolistic capital which is executed for the sake of capitalist regime preservation. The main characteristics of fascism are as follows:
extreme violence to suppress proletariat and other working people,
extreme anti-communism,
chauvinism,
racism,
wide application of state monopoly methods to control economy,
strict monitoring over private life of people.
Domestic policy under fascism is aimed at exploiting working people. Its foreign policy means imperialistic wars. In the center of fascist ideology there is an idea of military expansion, racial inequality, class harmony, leadership. One of the most striking features of fascist ideology is its yielding demagogy aimed at hiding its reactionary essence.
At present we witness neo-fascist tendencies which become more and more active in decaying capitalist countries. Under deep crisis of capitalism neo-fascist forces are involved into all sorts of subversive activities trying to frighten the population.
- Socialism - a social formation that appears following the collapse of capitalism as a result of the dictatorship of the proletariat. It is based on public property on the means of production. The public property stipulates the absence of antagonistic relations, exploiting classes. It abolishes national inequality, discrepancies between the city and the village, between mental and physical labor. In the Socialist society there are two friendly classes: workers and peasants. The relationship between the classes are characterized by mental and spiritual unity, friendship and cooperation. On the basis of the public property the development of national economy becomes planned which is absolutely impossible under capitalism. The material wealth is shared according to the socialist principles.
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