Founder of Scientific Communism [antikvár]

May 5, 1968, is the sesquicentennial of the birth of Karl Marx, the founder of scientific communism, brilliant thinker, fervent revolutionary, teacher and leader of the world proletariat. Karl Marx, together with Frederick Engels, who held the same views and was his loyal comrade-in-arms, raised aloft the banner of struggle for communism at the turning point in the history of mankind when the proletariat, the most revolutionary clgss in history, emerged in the arena of social life. The entire theoretical and practical activity of Marx and Engels facilitated the political and ideological development of this class. The greatness of Marx lies in that he furnished an answer to the questions put on the order of the day by the entire course of historical development. Marx effected the greatest revolution in the social consciousness of mankind, elaborated the scientific world outlook of the proletariat which correctly reflects the la]ws of historical development. He turned socialism from an utopia into a science and sub- 1* Q