p Marxist-Leninist philosophy is a harmonious and integral system of views about the world—nature and society, the laws of their development, the ways and means of knowing these laws and using them to remake nature and society. It is a special form of spiritual activity, a special form of reflecting reality, a form which expresses man’s attitude to nature and his social environment. Underlying this philosophy is man’s vital need to get his bearings in the reality around him, his need to know this reality and change it in his own interests.

Inasmuch as it stems from recognition of the material world and from the recognition that this world is continuously changing and developing, it is a dialectical materialist outlook. In addition, it is a communist outlook because it is indissolubly linked up with the struggle for the lofty ideals of communism; more than that, it issues from 304 the struggle of the proletariat and all other working people for socialism and communism. Providing the theoretical basis for the struggle of the working people, this scientific outlook is, at the same time, a compass showing the road to deliverance from exploitation and oppression of every kind, the road to complete economic and social equality, to a really happy future.