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COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FRANCIS E, WALTER, Pennsylvania, Chairman
MORGAN M. MOULDER, Missouri

DONALD L. JACKSON, California CLYDE DOYLE, California

GORDON H, SCHERER, Ohio EDWIN E. WILLIS, Louisiana

WILLIAM E. MILLER, New York WILLIAM M. TUCK, Virginia

AUGUST E, JOHANSEN, Michigan

RICHARD ARENS, Staff Director
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CONTENTS

Preface....

Introduction..

The Communist Ideology...

Chapter I. The Communist View of History.

1. Classes and Class Struggle.

Property as the basis of class struggle.

Classes as conscious agents in history.

Facts, analysis, and dogma..

Communist explanation of evil.

2. Class Struggles and Historical Change.

Class struggles as the form of historical change

Knowledge of the "laws" of historical change...

3. The Destination of History...

Five phases of human society.

Significance of the "five phases" theory..

Weaknesses of the “five phases" theory.

4. The Laws of History....

Dialectical materialism.

Dialectic...

Materialism..

5. "Scientific” Socialism..

“Utopian" socialism rejected...

Attention focused on the laws of change rather than

the goal. .....

Chapter II. The Communist View of the Present Society.

1. The Communist World View....

Two incompatible approaches.

Marx's indictment of capitalist society. ...

Commodity production and contractual labor..

"Surplus value”...

The significance of the concept of "surplus value”..

The "labor theory of value”.

Criticism of the theory of “surplus value"

2. Marx's View of the Dynamics of Capitalist Society.

The "law of accumulation".....

“Concentration" and "centralization”,

“Increasing misery"..

Crises and revolution..

3. Lenin's Views on Capitalism.

False predictions.....

The consequences of the failure of Marx's predic-

tions.....

“Monopoly capitalism”

The “need for foreign markets".

Division and redivision of the world...

The new image of capitalism.....

4. Lenin's Views About the Dynamics of Capitalism.

The politics of “imperialism”.

“Inherent contradictions of imperialism”.

Weaknesses of. Lenin's concept.

5. Communists in “Present-day Society".

Communist attitudes toward "present-day society"..

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