ABSTRACT
Of all the political systems which are alive at the present day, Communism is almost the only one whose influence is mainly due to the force of its ideas and not the mere number of its adherents. Many authors have been even more enthusiastic, and put the relationship the other way round, claiming that Communism is the application of the scientific method to political and social affairs. The Communist system of thought, as is well known, was first worked out by Marx and Engels in about the 1860's and was subsequently developed by many authors of whom the most important are those two extremely practical men, Lenin and Stalin. Communists are working as representatives of the great mass of mankind who, as they correctly deduced, would be forced out of possession of the means of making wealth. For Communism the final test is something else, service to the interests of the working class.
