Nikolai Bukharin: Society

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“History moves in contradictions. The skeleton of historic existence, the economic structure of society, also develops in contradictions. Forms eternally follow forms. Everything has only a passing being. The dynamic force of life creates the new over and over again — such is the law inherent in reality.”

Nikolai Bukharin

Imperialism and World Economy (1917), Ch. 15 http://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1917/imperial/index.htm

“The foundation of a Communist society are laid by the organization of industry, and first of alll by purposeful unification of industry under state control.”

Nikolai Bukharin

Source: ABC's of Communism, pp. 319

“In the mater of education as in all other matters the Communist Party is not merely faced by constructive tasks. In the educational system bequeathed to it by capitalist society, it must hasten to destroy everything which has made of the school an instrument of capitalist rule.”

Nikolai Bukharin

Source: ABC's of Communism, Ch.X, p. 282

“Our ultimate aim is to bring about the existence of a state of society in which all persons who for one reason or another have lost the capacity for work, all those who are unable to work, shall have assured support. We must ensure that old people shall enjoy a peaceful old age in which they will be provided with all the comforts of life; that children shall have everything suitable to their requirements; that invalids and cripples shall be able to live in the circumstances most appropriate to their condition; that those who are wearied and overworked shall be placed in curative surroundings, where they will receive all the care that used to be given to the wealthy bourgeois who were ailing; that no one shall any longer be perpetually harassed with anticipation of hard times.”

Nikolai Bukharin

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ABC's of Communism

“The great majority of crimes committed in bourgeois society are either direct infringements of property rights or are indirectly connected with property.”

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ABC's of Communism

“During this era when the old society is being destroyed and the new society is being upbuilded, the popular courts have a gigantic task to perform. The process of change has been so rapid that soviet legislation has not been able to keep pace with it. The laws of the bourgeois landlord system have been annulled; but the laws of the proletarian State have as yet merely been outlined, and will never be committed to paper in their entirety.”

Nikolai Bukharin

72. Unified Popular Law-Courts
ABC's of Communism