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The term "scientific communism" has been already used by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and other early communists; however it was used in reference to their point of view on the socialist and communist movements in the world, rather than a separate entire scientific discipline.[3]
Mikhail Nemtsev points out that in the Soviet Union "social sciences" were seen as educational disciplines whose primary goal was forming the "correct", i.e. communist, worldview. It was an instrument for indoctrination, rather than for gaining objective knowledge.[3]
Scientific communism as an educational discipline
The subject "scientific communism" as a separate discipline was introduced into the Soviet education system in 1963, following the order of the Soviet ideologist Mikhail Suslov.[3][4] Paul Milton Carter in his Ph.D. thesis Suslov and Soviet Scientific Communism argued that this Suslov's move was to secure his position as "chief ideologist" and to address the growing demand on the introduction of a discipline of sociology of Marxist–Leninist type. Before that the role of Soviet sociologists was to counter the "bourgeois pseudoscience" of sociology.[5] Scientific communism was to take over the sociological elements of the discipline of historical materialism.[3]
Following this innovation in the education system, the department of Scientific Communism was opened by the Institute of Philosophy of the
It was taught in the
Overview
Passing exams in scientific communism was a necessary prerequisite for obtaining a
- Origins and development of the communist theory
- Theory of socialist revolution
- International communist movement
- Dictatorship of the proletariat
- Transformation of socialism into communism
- Communist interpersonal relations and upbringing
- Criticisms of anti-communism
Other components of Marxism in the Soviet education system, following Lenin's article The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism:
- Marxist philosophy, subdivided into dialectical materialism and historical materialism
- Political economy, subdivided into the political economy of capitalism and political economy of socialism
See also
References
- ^ a b A Dictionary of Scientific Communism. Moscow: Progress Publishers (1984). p. 212.
- ^ Afanasyev, V.G. (1977). Fundamentals of Scientific Communism. Progress Publishers.
- ^ a b c d e f Mikhail Nemtsev , "К истории советской академической дисциплины «Основы научного коммунизма»", Идеи и Идеалы journal, No. 1(27), vol. 1, 2016
- ^ Приказ Министра высшего и среднего специального образования СССР № 214 «О введении преподавания в вузах СССР курса основ научного коммунизма» от 27 июня 1963 года
- ^ Paul Milton Carter, Suslov and Soviet Scientific Communism, 1997, (Ph.D. thesis), translated in Russian as Картер, Пол М. - Шеф-идеолог: М. А. Суслов и "наука" о коммунизме в СССР, 2003
- ISBN 9781136787867.
- ^ Marx, Engels, Lenin on scientific communism. Progress Publishers. 1976.
- ^ Scientific Communism: A Textbook. 1983.