The combined name for Marxism and Leninism. Marx and Engels studied the economic and political development of capitalism in Europe, summed up the experience of European workers’ movements, absorbed and transformed the achievements of human ideology and culture, especially the latest achievements of philosophy, social sciences and natural sciences in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries, and established a theoretical system including Marxist philosophy, political economics and scientific socialism. They explained the general law of the evolution of human society with historical materialism and revealed the special law of capitalist mode of production with surplus value theory. With the discovery of historical materialism and surplus value theory, socialism developed from fantasy to science. Marx and Engels demonstrated the historical inevitability of socialism and communism replacing capitalism, pointing out that the proletariat is a great class to realize this historical mission, while the proletarian party is the core to lead this cause. They expounded the theories of proletarian revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat, and put forward basic principles for future social development and construction on the basis of the scientific analysis of capitalist reality…
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