7 PREFACE
11 INTRODUCTION
HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHT: ITS MESSAGE
  Section One
  SOCIAL THOUGHT SEEKS AND FINDS THE WAY
  Chapter One • HOW THE BASIC QUESTION IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AROSE
21 [introduction.]
28 SOCIAL THOUGHT IN ANTIQUITY
33 MEDIEVAL THEORIES OF THE SOCIAL PROCESS
37 ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE A SOCIAL THEORY AND THE UTOPIAS
42 THE IDEAL OF PROGRESS
  Chapter Two • HARBINGERS OF THE GREAT FUTURE
49 [introduction.]
49 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY UTOPIAN COMMUNISTS
56 VISION OF LASTING PEACE
63 UTOPIAN SOCIALISM IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY AND THE IDEA OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
77 RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY DEMOCRATS AND THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  Chapter Three • REVOLUTION IN THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHT
92 [introduction.]
94 THE MATERIALIST WORLD OUTLOOK AND COMMUNISM
97 DIALECTICS AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM
100 THE KEY SPHERE OF MAN’S ACTIVITY
103 THE SOURCE OF CLASS SOCIETY’S DEVELOPMENT
104 THE POLITICAL ORGANISATION OF THE WORKING CLASS
109 THE WAY OF SOCIAL PROGRESS
115 SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM AND ITS STRUGGLE AGAINST UTOPIANISM
119 THE PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE SOCIETY
124 THE IDEA OF A WORLD REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS
131 MARX AND OUR DAY
  Section Two
  MARXISM-LENINISM: THE THEORY OF SOCIAL PROGRESS IN THE MODERN EPOCH
143 [introduction.]
  Chapter One • SOCIAL THINKING IN THE NEW EPOCH
149 [introduction.]
153 LENIN’S WORK ON THE PROBLEMS OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM
166 TWO STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW SOCIAL FORMATION
177 SOCIAL REVOLUTION IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PROGRESS
184 THE ROLE OF THE MASSES IN HISTORY
  Chapter Two • SOCIAL THOUGHT AND REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE
198 [introduction.]
198 THEORY OF STRUGGLE INSTEAD OF ADMIRATION OF SPONTANEOUS MOVEMENTS
204 APPROACH TO REVOLUTION: PROLETARIAN AND PETTY-BOURGEOIS
210 Chapter Three • THE ORIGIN OF REVOLUTIONS
211 DOCTRINE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION
215 THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF REVOLUTION
222 TIME OF REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
  Chapter Four • REVOLUTION, WAR AND PEACE
228 [introduction.]
229 WHAT LENIN ACTUALLY SAID ABOUT REVOLUTION AND WAR
232 LENIN’S IDEAS OF STRUGGLE FOR PEACE
242 PRESENT-DAY SOCIAL THOUGHT AND THE PROBLEM OF WAR AND PEACE
254 COMMUNISM IS PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP AMONG 
  Chapter Five • SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM AND THE MODERN THEORY OF PROGRESS
258 [introduction.]
259 PATH OF PROGRESS FOR ALL MANKIND
266 GROWING PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR—THE BASIS OF SOCIAL PROGRESS
270 PROGRESS IN THE ORGANISATION OF SOCIAL LABOUR
274 THE EDUCATIONAL POWER OF EXAMPLE IN BUILDING THE NEW SOCIETY
277 LENIN’S IDEAS ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNIST LABOUR
287 THE HIGHROAD OF THE FREE SOCIETY
290 THE WAY OF INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PROGRESS
  Section Three
  OBSOLETE IDEAS PERSIST
305 [introduction.]
  Chapter One • BOURGEOIS SOCIAL THOUGHT RETREATS
307 [introduction.]
307 THEORIES OF UNABASHED REACTION
309 THE EMERGENCE OF LIBERALISM AND ITS CONNECTION WITH BOURGEOIS SOCIOLOGY
313 COMTE’S SOCIOLOGY
315 SPENCER’S SYSTEM AND HIS EVOLUTIONISM
318 “REFORMS” AGAINST REVOLUTION
320 SUBJECTIVISM TRIUMPHS IN SOCIOLOGY
322 CLASSICAL POSITIVIST SCHEMES IN CRISIS
  Chapter Two • HISTORY MARCHES ON DESPITE BOURGEOIS THEORIES
326 [introduction.]
327 BARRIER TO BOURGEOIS SOCIAL THOUGHT
328 ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTHOLOGY
332 CHRONICLE OF THE SPIRITUAL IMPOVERISHMENT OF ANTI-COMMUNISM
337 CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF NEOLIBERALISM
341 POLITICAL CONCERNS AND THE SPIRITUAL IMPOVERISHMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL
344 WHAT HAPPENS TO BOURGEOIS LIBERAL SLOGANS
  Chapter Three • CONCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL STAGNATION
348 [introduction.]
349 LOSS OF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
351 “SOCIAL CHANGE” INSTEAD OF PROGRESS
358 BOURGEOIS CONCEPTIONS OF CIVILISATION AND CULTURE
364 REVIVAL OF THE “CYCLIC THEORY”
372 CHANCE INSTEAD OF OBJECTIVE REGULARITY
375 “ECONOMIC GROWTH” THEORY: ERSATZ THEORY OF PROGRESS
377 BOURGEOIS SOCIOLOGY: NO SOLUTION FOR SOCIAL RELATIONS PROBLEM
391 CONCLUSION
SOCIAL PROGRESS AND IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE
398 TRANSITION FROM ONE FORMATION TO ANOTHER AND IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE • CONCERNING SOME ASPECTS OF THE PRESENT IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE
404 THE IMPACT OF EXAMPLE ON THE WORLD HISTORICAL PROCESS
422 SUBJECT INDEX
427 NAME INDEX
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