| 11 | PREFACE |
| CHAPTER I | |
| THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT—A FORCE STANDING IN THE VAN OF THE WORLD REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS | |
| 13 | [introduction.] |
| § 1. THE ROLE OF THE MARXIST-LENINIST PARTY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE | |
| 13 | [introduction.] |
| 15 | The Communist Party—a Force Standing in the Forefront of the Revolutionary Struggle |
| 20 | § 2. THE MARXIST-LENINIST PARTY—AN EMBODIMENT OF COMMUNISTS’ UNITY OF WILL AND ACTION |
| § 3. THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT | |
| 28 | [introduction.] |
| 28 | Marxism-Leninism Is the Theoretical Foundation of Communist Strategy and Tactics |
| 33 | The Content of the Strategy of the Communist Movement |
| 40 | The Content of the Tactics of the Communist Parties |
| 46 | Due Account of the Enemy’s Policies |
| § 4. THE WORLD COMMUNIST MOVEMENT HAS BECOME THE MOST INFLUENTIAL POLITICAL FORCE OF OUR TIMES | |
| 51 | The Growth of the International Communist Movement |
| 55 | The Main Detachments of the Communist Movement |
| 59 | § 5. THE INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS OF COMMUNIST AND WORKERS’ PARTIES |
| CHAPTER II | |
| THE UNITY AND COMPONENTS OF THE WORLD REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS | |
| 74 | [introduction.] |
| § 1. THE WORLD SYSTEM OF SOCIALISM | |
| 75 | [introduction.] |
| 76 | The Revolutionising Impact of the Successes in the Construction of a New Society |
| 91 | The Growing Might of Socialism and New Alignment of Forces in the World |
| § 2. THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT OF THE WORKING CLASS IN THE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES | |
| 93 | [introduction.] |
| 95 | The Condition of the Working Class, and the Aggravation of Its Conflict with the Bourgeoisie |
| 98 | Characteristic Features of the Present-Day Working-Class Movement and Its Part in the World Revolutionary Process |
| § 3. THE NATIONAL-LIBERATION MOVEMENT | |
| 102 | [introduction.] |
| 103 | The Place of the National-Liberation Movement in the World Revolutionary Process |
| 105 | The Social Aims of the National-Liberation Movement and Other Revolutionary Forces Are Drawing Closer Together |
| CHAPTER III | |
| THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION AND THE FORMS OF ITS DEVELOPMENT | |
| 110 | [introduction.] |
| § 1. LAWS GOVERNING SOCIALIST REVOLUTION | |
| 111 | The Objective and Subjective Conditions for the Socialist Revolution |
| 122 | The General Principles of the Socialist Revolution and the Specific Forms of Their Manifestation |
| § 2. THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IS PART OF THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALISM | |
| 128 | [introduction.] |
| 129 | The Class Essence of Bourgeois Democracy |
| 133 | The Working Class and Bourgeois Democracy |
| 135 | The Objective Conditions for the Development of General-Democratic Movements |
| 137 | Revolution and Reform |
| § 3. THE FORMS IN WHICH THE WORKING CLASS WINS POWER | |
| 141 | What the Founders of Marxism-Leninism Said About the Forms of Winning Power |
| 146 | The Diversity of the Forms of Winning Power in the Present-Day Conditions |
| § 4. THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT | |
| 153 | The Question of Power Is Cardinal in the Revolution |
| 157 | The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Its Essence and Forms |
| 164 | The Transitional Stages in the Struggle for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORLD REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS, AND THE PROBLEM OF WAR AND PEACE | |
| 167 | [introduction.] |
| § 1. THE LINK BETWEEN WAR AND REVOLUTION | |
| 167 | [introduction.] |
| 168 | War and Revolution |
| 172 | The Danger from Imperialism’s Policy of Aggression |
| § 2. THE POSSIBILITY OF AVERTING A WORLD WAR AND CURBING IMPERIALISM’S AGGRESSIVE FORCES | |
| 176 | [introduction.] |
| 177 | Peaceful Coexistence and the Revolutionary Struggle |
| 184 | The Interlink Between the Struggle for Peace and the Struggle Against Imperialism |
| CHAPTER V | |
| THE COMMUNIST PARTIES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR WORKING-CLASS UNITY | |
| 188 | [introduction.] |
| § 1. THE CAUSES OF THE SPLIT IN THE WORKING-CLASS MOVEMENT, AND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE LATTER’S UNIFICATION | |
| 188 | [introduction.] |
| 195 | Factors Favouring Workers’ Unity |
| § 2. CO-OPERATION BETWEEN COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS—THE FOUNDATION OF WORKERS’ UNITY | |
| 202 | [introduction.] |
| 212 | Principles of the Struggle for Unity |
| § 3. THE STRUGGLE FOR UNITY IN THE TRADE-UNION MOVEMENT. COMMUNISTS’ ACTIVITIES IN THE TRADE UNIONS | |
| 219 | [introduction.] |
| 220 | The Communist Party and the Trade Unions |
| 222 | How Influence Is to Be Won |
| 224 | The Nature of Trade-Union Demands |
| 228 | For Nation-Wide Unity |
| 230 | For International Unity |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| HOW THE COMMUNIST PARTIES IN THE CAPITALIST COUNTRIES ARE WORKING TO SET UP AND STRENGTHEN THE ANTI-MONOPOLY FRONT | |
| 236 | [introduction.] |
| § 1. ALL ANTI-MONOPOLY FORCES GRAVITATE TOWARDS THE WORKING CLASS | |
| 237 | At the Head of All Working People and Against the Monopolies |
| 241 | The Anti-Monopoly Alliance’s Programme |
| § 2. THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE WORKING CLASS AND THE PEASANTRY; ITS PLACE IN THE ANTI-MONOPOLY MOVEMENT. COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE RURAL AREAS | |
| 245 | [introduction.] |
| 247 | Peasant Action Against Oppression by the Monopolies |
| 249 | The Communist Parties’ Agrarian Programmes |
| 253 | Forms and Methods of Communist Activities in Rural Areas |
| § 3. THE COMMUNIST PARTIES’ POLICY TOWARDS THE URBAN MIDDLE STRATA | |
| 258 | [introduction.] |
| 260 | The Position and Struggle of the Urban Middle Strata Under Present-Day Conditions |
| 263 | The Communist Parties and the Middle Strata |
| 266 | The Forms and Methods of Communists’ Work Among the Middle Strata |
| § 4. THE COMMUNIST PARTIES’ POLICY TOWARDS INTELLECTUALS | |
| 270 | [introduction.] |
| 270 | The Condition of the Intelligentsia Under Capitalism |
| 276 | The Intelligentsia: an Important Ally of the Working Class |
| 279 | Communists and Intellectuals |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| THE STRUGGLE TO BUILD UP AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST NATIONAL-DEMOCRATIC FRONT IN ASIA AND AFRICA | |
| § 1. FEATURES OF THE NATIONAL-LIBERATION MOVEMENT AT ITS PRESENT STAGE | |
| 282 | Changes in the Social Content of the National-Liberation Movement |
| 286 | The Non-Capitalist Road of Development |
| 289 | Socialist Concepts in Newly Free Countries, and Communists’ Attitude to Them |
| § 2. THE ALIGNMENT OF CLASS FORCES. FORCES PARTICIPATING IN THE NATIONAL-DEMOCRATIC FRONT | |
| 293 | [introduction.] |
| 294 | The Working Class and the United Front |
| 298 | Peasants in a United Front. Workers’ and Peasants’ Alliance |
| 304 | The National Bourgeoisie in a United Anti-Imperialist Front |
| 310 | The Communist Parties’ Tactics Towards the National Bourgeoisie |
| § 3. THE STRUGGLE TO FORM A UNITED FRONT IN THE NEWLY FREE COUNTRIES | |
| 314 | [introduction.] |
| 314 | A United National-Democratic Front |
| 317 | Communists and the Revolutionary Democrats |
| 323 | A United Front in Countries on the Capitalist Road |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNISTS AND THE PROBLEMS OF UNITED ACTION BY PROGRESSIVE, ANTI-IMPERIALIST REVOLUTIONARY FORCES | |
| 332 | § 1. THE PREREQUISITES FOR, AND THE NATURE AND SPECIFIC FEATURES OF, THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES IN THE LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES |
| § 2. FEATURES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTIES’ STRUGGLE FOR THE UNITY OF THE REVOLUTIONARY, ANTI-IMPERIALIST AND DEMOCRATIC FORCES | |
| 338 | [introduction.] |
| 339 | For a Broad National-Democratic Front |
| 345 | For Working-Class Hegemony in the Liberation Movement |
| 348 | The Position of the Petty and Middle Bourgeoisie |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| THE COMMUNISTS’ WORK AMONG THE MASSES | |
| 351 | [introduction.] |
| 354 | § 1. THE CONTENT AND FORM OF WORK AMONG THE MASSES |
| 360 | § 2. COMMUNISTS AND THE YOUTH |
| 374 | § 3. THE COMMUNISTS’ WORK AMONG WOMEN |
| § 4. COMMUNISTS AND RELIGIOUS BELIEVERS | |
| 379 | [introduction.] |
| 379 | Communists and Religion |
| 381 | The Dialogue Between Communists and Religious Believers, and United Action by Them |
| CHAPTER X | |
| THE COMMUNIST PARTIES’ STRUGGLE AGAINST RIGHT- AND “LEFT”-WING OPPORTUNISM | |
| 389 | [introduction.] |
| § 1. THE SOCIO-POLITICAL SOURCES OF OPPORTUNISM | |
| 390 | [introduction.] |
| 391 | The Social Base of Opportunism |
| 393 | The Political Sources of Revisionism |
| 395 | The Sources of Opportunism in the Socialist Countries |
| § 2. RIGHT-WING OPPORTUNISM, ITS ESSENCE AND FORMS OF MANIFESTATION | |
| 398 | The Essence of Right-Wing Opportunism |
| 399 | The Activisation of Revisionism in the Present-Day Conditions |
| 408 | The Special Danger of Revisionism in the Socialist Countries |
| 412 | Other Manifestations of Revisionism |
| § 3. “LEFT”-WING OPPORTUNISM: ITS FORMS | |
| 414 | The Essence of “Left”-Wing Opportunism |
| 416 | Dogmatism and Sectarianism |
| 419 | The Anti-Leninist Course Followed by the CPC’s Leaders |
| 425 | Neo-Trotskyism. Present-Day Varieties of Anarchism |
| 433 | § 4. THE IDEOLOGICAL KINSHIP BETWEEN RIGHT AND “LEFT”-WING OPPORTUNISM |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM AND THE UNITY OF THE WORLD COMMUNIST MOVEMENT | |
| 441 | [introduction.] |
| § 1. PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM— AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE IDEOLOGY AND POLICIES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PROLETARIAT | |
| 441 | [introduction.] |
| 442 | The Objective Basis of Internationalism |
| 443 | The October Revolution and Proletarian Internationalism |
| 445 | Internationalism Today |
| 447 | The Internationalist Responsibility of the Communist Parties |
| § 2. THE CAUSES OF THE DIFFERENCES IN THE WORLD COMMUNIST MOVEMENT | |
| 448 | [introduction.] |
| 449 | New Problems of the Development of the World Communist Movement |
| 451 | The Uneven Development of the Revolutionary Process |
| 452 | More Sections of the People Are Being Drawn into the Revolutionary Process |
| 453 | The Imperialist Ideological Offensive |
| 455 | The Significance of the Subjective Factor |
| 457 | Nationalism Within the Communist Movement |
| § 3. THE ROADS OF THE STRUGGLE FOR THE UNITY OF THE WORLD COMMUNIST MOVEMENT AND AGAINST NATIONALISM AND ANTI-SOVIETISM | |
| 459 | [introduction.] |
| 459 | Cohesion of the Communist Movement in a Common Struggle Against Imperialism |
| 461 | The Extension of Links Between the Fraternal Parties |
| 465 | The Ideological Unity of the Communist Movement |
| 467 | Combining National and International Tasks |
| 470 | The Need to Combat Nationalism |
| 471 | Irreconcilability Towards Anti-Sovietism |
| 475 | § 4. THE CPSU’S CONSISTENT INTERNATIONALISM. THE INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE CPSU |
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