State Monopoly Capitalism and the Struggle for Socialism

In the present epoch, when the transition from capitalism to socialism, a significant event in human history, is being completed, and when the attractive force of socialist ideas has become a decisive factor in the ideological life of mankind, the struggle between two opposing ideologies â the capitalist and the socialist â is concentrated around the question of the need to replace the outlived capitalist system by a new and higher socialist system. Under these conditions, bourgeois ideologists who pose as their fundamental objective the defence of capitalism and defamation of the achievements of the world system of socialism encounter ever-increasing difficulties. The hopelessness of the tactic of frontal attacks compels the apologists of capitalism to resort to outflanking maneuvers, employing revisionism, which is of inestimable assistance to them.