p Marxist materialist dialectics is a profound and allembracing theory of development and universal connection. By giving a general idea of material processes it comprises a scientific method of’cognising the world and helps man to comprehend the most diverse phenomena of reality. But in addition to being a method of knowledge, Marxist dialectics 79 is also an instrument of the revolutionary transformation of the world, and is of enormous importance for the practical activity of the working class and its Marxist party.

p Materialist dialectics is basically critical and revolutionary. It maintains that nothing is immutable or eternal. Nothing, with the exception of infinite progress, perpetual and inexorable advance, can stand up to it.

p It is an irreconcilable opponent of metaphysics and reaction, of all attempts to defend the moribund social system and perpetuate private property and exploitation, wars and national oppression. It helped to discover the historically transitory nature of capitalism and proved the inevitability of its doom and replacement by the new, socialist system. That is why it is regarded with hatred and horror by the bourgeoisie and its ideologists.

p Being critical and revolutionary, Marxist dialectics is wholly consistent with the revolutionary spirit of the working class and its Marxist party, with the turbulent, dynamic nature of the contemporary epoch. It substantiates and illumines the steadfast struggle of the working class and its Marxist .party against imperialism, for peace, democracy, national liberation and socialism.

Marxist dialectics rejects everything backward and obsolete in reality; it does not tolerate stereotyped practices and stagnation and dogmatism in theoretical thought. It demands farsightedness and reliance on progressive social forces. That is what the CPSU does. Relying on advanced forces and cultivating the priceless sense of the new in Soviet people, it successfully leads the Soviet people along the road to communism.