Karl Marx. His Ideas and Doings will Live Centuries. Part II

The article analyzes the main ideas of Marx and Engels on the essential processes characterising the historical development of societies. The author shows that it is scientifically untenable to contrast the views of Marx and Engels on the ability to learn the laws of natural and social development. Marx and Engels are great scientists and revolutionaries. They turned socialism from utopia to science. Marxism discovered the main law of historical development: the law of equivalence of production relations to the charachter and development level of productive forces. Marxism proved that the main contradiction of capitalism is the contradiction between the social character of production and private character of product appropriation. Marx was certainly right in his understanding of the main processes of capitalist development. He gave the fighters against capitalist exploitation and oppression a model of the socialist society, which will inevitably establish itself as an alternative to capitalism, a society, where life will be characterized by labour, freedom, equality, justice, solidarity and peace. The author is convinced that Marx's theory is deeply scientific. Yet he does not say that one can find there all the answers to the questions of modern historical development. The experience of millions and time will show us the way. We need to study that experience, and check the reality against our ideals, without ever adjusting it to some forever established postulates.

К. Маркс, марксизм, неомарксизм, социализм, утопия, философский материализм, гуманизм, диалектика, K. Marx, marxism, neo-marxism, socialism, utopia, philo- sophical materialism, humanism, dialectics

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