ABSTRACT
Russia has achieved what has hitherto been known only at rare periods in history, the experience of almost a whole people living under a unified philosophy of life. Karl Marx's teaching resolves itself into three principal elements: a philosophy of history, an economic theory, and a practical program for the realization of a new social order. According to Hegel, not only all matter and mind but the entire universe is in motion in the evolutionary process. The dialectic process, of progress realized through conflict, appears in nature, in history and in the human mind. Marx in his labor theory of value sought a universal principle of social valuation to which varying price relations could be referred. An undue proportion of surplus value was bound to go to the monopolist owners. Society is divided into two classes, those who will not starve if they do not work and those who will starve if they do not work.
