Socialism and Capitalism [antikvár]

Introduction With the victory of the October Socialist Revolution in Russia in 1917, the world became split into two socio-economic systems - socialism and capitalism, and economic competition between these two systems has been a dominant feature of the international scene ever since. This competition is a form of class struggle on a world scale which takes place between the young and vigoirously developing socialist system and the capitalist system, which has had its day and is losing one position after another. This form of class struggle occurs regardless of the will of politicians, parties, classes or peoples, being an objective historical process taking place in a world where socialism and capitalism exist side by side. Socialism was weak when it first emerged, and in the West the victory of the Communists in Russia was not regarded as a victory that would last. The capitalist press and bourgeois politicians had predicted the collapse of Soviet power within a week, a month, a year. And as October 1917 receded into the past they continued to push further the date when the hated "illegitimate," "unnatural" Bolshevik regime would fali. Such prophesying lasted well into