With an introduction, by MAX EASTMAN With an essay on Marxism by V. I. LENIN
Publication Information : Book Title : Capital, the Communist Manifesto and Other Writings. Contributors : Max Eastman – editor, Karl Marx – author. Publisher : The Modern Library. Place of Publication : New York. Publication Year : 1959.
THE THREE SOURCES AND THREE CONSTITUENT PARTS OF MARXISM
Throughout the whole civilized world Marxist teachings draw upon themselves the extreme hostility and hatred of all bourgeois science (both governmental and liberal). It sees in Marxism something in the nature of a harmful « sect. » No other attitude could be expected, for an impartial social science is impossible in a society founded on class struggle. In one way or another every governmental and liberal science defends wage slavery, and Marxism has declared ruthless war against this slavery. To expect impartial science in a wageslave society is rather stupidly naïve–like expecting owners to be impartial on the question whether to raise the workers’ wages at the expense of the profits of capital.