Abstract

One of the most important postulates of Marxism-Leninism is the notion of the inseparability of the ideals of socialism and democracy. Today as in the past, the struggle of the working class of the capitalist countries is, in the final analysis, a struggle for genuine democracy, for democracy for those who work. But this struggle is effective only if the political consciousness of the exploited masses is permeated with the conviction that democracy in capitalist society is one of the forms of political dominance by the bourgeoisie, that the transition from capitalism to socialism requires revolutionary establishment of socialist democracy, that the superiority of the democratic arrangements of real socialism over bourgeois parliamentary arrangement is indisputable