p Contemporary bourgeois ideologists misrepresent the course of historical process. Sensing the approaching 191 collapse of capitalism, they shout about the death of civilisation and humanity in general, and identify the inevitable doom of capitalism with the doom of humanity. Capitalism will definitely, perish, but humanity will continue to live and develop and will certainly rise to the shining peaks of communism.

p Bourgeois sociologists misrepresent the character of the historical process for a definite reason: to stave off the doom of capitalism, embellish the crumbling fagade of the capitalist edifice, and vilify socialism and refute MarxismLeninism, the sole scientific teaching of society.

p To attain these objectives these diplomaed flunkeys of capitalism slander socialism and Marxist-Leninist theory, frenziedly justify capitalism and deliver false discourses about a “people’s state”, about a bourgeois state being a “welfare state”. They evolved the notorious theory of convergence which claims that since advanced capitalist and socialist countries have highly developed industry, technology, science and other common features, the world is witnessing the drawing together of capitalism and socialism and their transformation into a sort of a synthetic society based, of course, on slightly modernised capitalism. Sometimes this synthetic society is called “single industrialised society" and lately either a “post-industrial” or “technotronic” society which derives its essence wholly from an exceptionally high level of scientific and technical development. It goes without saying, of course, that a convergence of these two opposing social systems is inconceivable, if only because capitalism rests on private ownership and exploitation, while socialism rests on public ownership and on relations of cooperation and mutual assistance of the working people.

p However hard the apologists of imperialism try, history follows its course and most forcefully demonstrates the great truth of Marx ism-Leninism.

p Science and the history-making activity of the people prove beyond all doubt that social progress is a continuous natural historic process which takes place in keeping with objective laws which are independent of man. The history of society is an endless chain of development, revolutionary transitions from the more simple, lower social systems to the more complex, higher ones. Moreover, social progress is based on the growth and improvement of material 192 production. In its development production has moved from principal tools—sticks and stones—with which man began his battle for survival, to sophisticated automatic machines and mechanisms driven by electric and atomic energy. As production advances, so do other spheres of social life.

Life, the enormous economic, social and cultural progress in the USSR and other socialist countries, humanity’s relentless advance from capitalism to socialism and communism shatter the pseudo-scientific theories of contemporary bourgeois sociologists. All these “theories” strikingly evidence the crisis that has gripped modern capitalism and the reactionary sociology which defends it.