ABSTRACT

Communist ideology in its seventy years has given birth to so many more monsters than the old private property civilization could give rise to in three hundred years. But this striking fact is also neglected by the present Soviet "orthodox." No doubt the policy of glasnost' and openness brought on by perestroika started and speeded up the process of de-Stalinization in Eastern Europe. The Bolsheviks' incompetence, according to philosopher N. Simonia, is due to the fact that "in 1917 there was no or nearly no basis for socialism in Russia," and that is why Karl Marx's theory could not have been implemented there. Many people were influenced by Marxism but as a rule the most intelligent, the most talented overcome Marxist truths, having realized that they were wrong. All socialist countries paid a high price for the Marxists' passion for maximum centralization and concentration of production, for the Marxists' love of bi.