Political Economy [antikvár]

CHAPTER I What Is Political Economy and What Does It Teach? In its struggle the proletariat is guided by the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. These great teachers and leaders Marxism-Leninism— of the proletariat have forged a powerful the doctrine of weapon. They have created and developed the proletariat the revolutionary theory of the proletariat. The Marxist-Leninist teaching is a guide for the working class in its struggle under capitalism. Marxism-Leninism is a powerful weapon in the hands of the class conscious workers of all countries who enter the struggle against capital, and after the triumph of the proletarian revolution it shows the working class the way to conduct successfully the further struggle against all enemies of socialism, it enables them to carry out a correct policy ensuring the building of a complete socialist society. In his explanation of the first draft program of the Bolshevik Party, Lenin wrote more than thirty years ago that Marxian theory ". . . for the first lime transformed socialism from a utopia into a science, established a firm basis for this science and indicated the road along which to proceed in developing and elaborating this science further in all its details. It uncovered the essence of modern capitalist economy, explaining how the hiring of labour, the purchase of labour power, masks the enslavement of millions of propertyless people by a small group of capitalists, the owners of the land, factories, mines, etc. It showed how the entire development of modern capitalism tends towards the crushing of small enterprises by large ones, creating conditions which make possible and necessary the establishment of a socialist order of society. It taught one to distinguish— under the veil of established customs, political intrigue, tricky laws and tangled teachings—the class struggle, the struggle of propertied classes of all sorts with the propertyless masses, with the proletariat, which leads all the propertyless masses. 11