ABSTRACT
The goal of this chapter is to shortly describe the pillars of the Marxist-Leninist thinking with emphasis on those relevant parts that were important for practical functioning of the centrally planned economic systems. The authors of this text are well aware of the fact that the ideas of the eponyms of socialist thinking did not provide a coherent ideological universe. In addition, problems appear because the followers of Lenin’s ideology began introducing the ideology into practice and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the ideology itself and instructions for everyday practice.
