scientific communism

English

Noun

scientific communism (uncountable)

1. (Marxism) The science that expresses the radical interests and objectives involved in the struggle of the working class.
   • 1918, Nikolai Bukharin, Anarchy and Scientific Communism‎^[1]:

     Scientific communism sees the state as the organisation of the ruling class, an instrument of oppression and violence, and it is on these grounds that it does not countenance a "state of the future". In the future there will be no classes, there will be no class oppression, and thus no instrument of that oppression, no state of violence. The "classless state" - a notion that turns the heads of social democrats - is a contradiction in terms, a nonsense, an abuse of language, and if this notion is the spiritual nourishment of the social democracy it is really no fault of the great revolutionaries Marx and Engels.

Related terms

• scientific socialism

Translations

scientific expression of working class interests

• Greek: επιστημονικός κομμουνισμός m (epistimonikós kommounismós)