Introduction. Socialism in Russia: Three Dogmas of Leninism, Two Dogmas of Social Democratic Thought, One Dogma of Bourgeois Thought

Abstract

Of the many historical questions posed by the contents of part I, only one can be dealt with in this book; but I think it is, the most important: why did socialism actually arise in Russia? Our theoretical considerations led to identification of the social force that leads to the socialisation of capitalism. This socialism — the one-momentum society with triple-classes — the Western countries only head towards, but it already exists, and has existed for several decades. How has it happened that tsarist Russia has preceded the allegedly “advanced” countries of the West in the march to socialism? The main expositions of this part of the volume aim at the answer for this question alone; all the other expositions play an instrumental role in this one.