ABSTRACT

Comrades, face a stormy and difficult time in the intense struggle for socialism in the country and in this period of sharp class struggle throughout the world, especially in the colonial East. In constructing a particular oriental social and economic formation, the proponents of the theory of ‘Asiatic’ mode of production base themselves on the Marxist definition of the essence of social formations, but they ground their ‘formation’ on purely superficial remarks. It is believed that, in conditions of extremely sharp class struggle in the Orient, when the national liberation movement in the decisive colonial countries has reached its highest stage and the class contradictions are revealed as never before, it is not accidental that in our ranks the question of the class structure of oriental society lacks definition, and that there is a movement away from Marxist-Leninist positions.