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ent systems of government is possible, but peaceful coexistence among different ideologies is not. It would be a betrayal of our Party’s first principles. ...”
The much admired Mr. Gorbachev said essentially the same thing recently at a major Party Congress in the Soviet Union. He remains a dedicated Marxist-Leninist.
Marxism is the ideology, the belief system for Communists. Karl Marx, its principal author, published his seminal work in the middle of the nineteenth century. For Communists, his writings are the equivalent of the Bible for Christians. Marx’s studies led him to conclude that the economic system in every society controls and determines the character of everything: the customs, governments, laws, religions; that economic systems change and advance over time, in accordance with the unalterable laws he had discovered; and that the final stage of economic “advance” must be Communism, which follows capitalism. For the Communist there is no reason, and no room, for other beliefs.
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