ABSTRACT
As V. I. Lenin's explanation of the fundamental axiom of Marxist social teaching unmistakably shows, there follows plainly from the premises the reversibility of the prevailing ideological justification and interpretation. In this context, Lenin had explained that "the essence of the dialectic" consists in "splitting the unitary" and "recognition of its opposing components". He took the view that there were two fundamental versions of development either possible or observable in history: development as diminution and enlargement, as repetition; and development as "a unity of opposites," that is, as a "splitting of the unitary into mutually exclusive opposites," and as the "reciprocal relation between them". An apparently opposite view, of a "revolution within the Communist formation," was presented in the philosophical journal of Moscow University in 1987 by Richard Kosolapov. It too, however, showed the unmistakable intent to avoid the possible danger of a real socioeconomic revolution by a new way of viewing things.
