V.I. Lenin

Reproduced with thanks from the "Marxists Internet Archive"

Throughout the civilised world the teachings of Marx evoke the utmost hostility and hatred of all bourgeois science (both official and liberal), which regards Marxism as a kind of “pernicious sect”. And no other attitude is to be expected, for there can be no “impartial” social science in a society based on class struggle. In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naive as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers’ wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital.

Communist Manifesto: An Introduction

As one would expect, the Communist Manifesto is a declaration of the intentions of a communist organization. Yet it has proved to be much more than this. It has also served as a brief and concise explanation of the ideas that form the foundation of communist and socialist ideology.

The following are selections from the Preface to the English edition, written by Frederick Engels January 30, 1888, London.

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Britians Road to Socialism Speakers Notes	History and Aims of the BRS, Political and economic crisis in Britain and the Fightback	96 Kb

• First draft 1951; revised 9 times; prior to that For Soviet Britain,1935.

• To wrest economic and political power from the relatively small number of capitalists who own the means of production, distribution and exchange, but in themselves produce nothing, and give that economic and political power to the 85%+ of the population who, by hand and by brain, produce everything but own little or nothing but their labour power.

• In a phrase, to win the Battle of Ideas.
• On the face of it what could be simpler?