The Basic Thoughts of Marxism-Leninism about the Relations between Socialism and Capitalism

Marx and Engels fully affirmed the historical function of capitalism.Based on the idea that socialism inherited from and further developed capitalism,they proposed the theory of the historical inevitability of capitalism being replaced by socialism.Lenin,in practice,inherited and developed the basic thoughts of the relationship between the two social systems shared by Marx and Engels,proposing that the transition from capitalism to communism requires an entire historical epoch,and tried to build socialism by using capitalism peacefully.The basic thoughts of the relationship between the two social systems of Marxism-Leninism not only provided the method of understanding capitalism for us,indicated the direction of dealing with the two social system relations,but also outlined the development prospects of human history.