English Translation

144.) It is a fact that the system of political democracy and of today's Soviet socialism diverge in a number of basic concepts, even if they agree in principle on other less important issues. The system of Soviet socialism is based on the 0T ideological materialistic basis, on the Marxist-Leninist world view. In philosophy this is the so-called dialectical materialism, in the conception of historical and social development is that of historical materialism; in the social, economic and cultural manifestations of today's struggle for life, that of economic materialism. In philosophy and in all moral manifestations it is posititististic (and In social and historical development, the decisive factor in all life is the economic structure of the society in question, in the daily political, social and cuitural conclusions, the basis for all the social life of the people in question. The struggle of the social and economic classes for bread and political power. Democracy, as we have already stressed above, is in its essence spiritualist-if already conscious and theoretisoh biidend democrats in philosophy and metaphysics finally adopt idealism, dualism or pantheism, it always means that they