Dear reader,
The book The Socialism – The Lie of the Century or the Century of the Lie was written for 4-5 years since 1985 and completed in February – March 1990. That is why, it has been written in present tense – to be a criticism of the regime that existed until recently under another title too – What is Socialism and Does it Have Any Ground at Our Side? However, unfortunately, it could not be published for 3 years, which forced the author to enter some changes – passing to past tense and cancellation of some out-of-date texts. No good words may be said about a democracy, which, due to various reasons (and ways) does not admit another, different viewpoint both regarding the totalitarianism and the democracy.
The purpose of the book is to represent the historical truth about Marxism, explaining in this way the nature of the “socialist” system that existed until now.
Under the common title of this work, two books are actually put together.
The Book One – The State– examine the principles of the scientific socialism, i.e. all those principles of Marxism concerning the state that build the socialism as a political system. Principles that have been rudely crushed and “forgotten” from Lenin’s death to our days.
The book reveals the scientific unsoundness of the so-called “people’ state” – the sample stone of the real acknowledgment of Marxism. Marx, Engels and Lenin had always been the most irreconcilable opponents of the “people’ state” whose petty bourgeois ideology was due to Lassal and Prudon but not to the communist prime teachers. In spite of this, “communist” Bulgaria was … a people’ state! This unreal, utopian “people’ state” is the ideological basis of fascism. Which is only one of the evidences that fascism but not socialism was existing in Bulgaria. For this purpose, the intentional misuse and falsification of the Marxist understanding about the socialist state as a dictatorship of the proletariat was utilised. There was dictatorship in Bulgaria but not dictatorship of the proletariat! Contrariwise, just the proletariat was the most cruelly exploited part of the people. The graphic relating the period from 1952 to 1988 in this first book proves that. In order to extract monopoly excess profits, the power was in the hands of a state financial oligarchy, which reduced this nothing suspecting proletariat to such an economic torment that transformed it into the cheapest labour force in the world! As a result from this savage exploitation, the number of the millionaires in Bulgaria increased more than 15 times for 40 years of “socialism”! Actually, this was a state capitalism. The state had remained as one and only capitalist. The coalescence of the state with the monopolies at the full absenceof private property led to state-monopolistic capitalism in its ultimate degree. So, the economic basis was state capitalism and the political superstructure – fascism! But not socialism!
Book Two – Theory of Salary – examines the economic laws that build the socialism as a more efficient economic system than the capitalism. These laws are extracted from Marx’s main work – The Capital. Such a production process is possible, in which the salary as a social relation represents a self-increasing value. This, on its part, does not allow the phenomenon of inflation to exist. This production process represents a repeating Carnot’s cycle, which, on its part, allows the public property on the means of production to be established, that has been considered absurdity under the commodity production; to reject the exploitation and the unemployment in society as well as to point out what is social equality and social justice with their concrete but not abstract meaning. The commodity of labour force is examined – when and how it ceases being a commodity under the socialism. The levelling is examined too – immanent not to the socialism but to the equalitarian capitalism. Beside that – the question of the rent and of the land under public property. The book ends with the dieing out of the commodity – according to its two conditions – and the transition from commodity to non-commodity, communist production relations.
Todor Bombov
Dear reader,
The book The Socialism – the Lie of the Century or the Century of the Lie is written with big interruptions. The first ideas and flashes date from 1982 but the first summarised assembly into integrate orderly built system has been made in the winters of 1988/89 and 1989/90. That is why, it was written under another title – What is Socialism and Does it Have Any Ground at Our Side? Grandfather Blagoev’s title has not been borrowed occasionally, nor it has been a freak but it expressed in the most exact way the content of the book, if it would have been printed until 1990. Unfortunately, this has not been made until 1993 when its first edition appeared. The publisher’s woes were not able to stop the writing process and finally, the book became a real fact in spite of its modest print and marketing. Therefore, this first edition became the skeleton around which the wholly revised and completed book was built with its two autonomous parts – especially in the economic theory where 3 new chapters were added and a range of changes and additions to the other ones. This process of remaking the first edition and of preparation of a new edition of this work begun mainly in the beginning of 1997 and went on till 2000 including. I consider that all disparities and mistakes in the first edition are removed even in details.
I admit that the book The Socialism would be more accessible in its first part for a wider range of readers while reading the second one would need some preliminary theoretical preparation – general (macroeconomics) and special (after The Capital of Marx). Special preparation is particularly needed.
I dedicate this work to my cherished parents Boris and Nadezhda – pure and holy Bulgarians, great martyrs.
I dedicate this work to my uncle too – Zdravko Bombov, who was not only believed to the great Idea, but offered himself as a sacrifice to it 20 years old only.
Classics must be not only honoured
but from time to time peruse them.
E.Krotki
It was said – the scientists all over the world are lots of, but the clever people are few.
Nowadays, a real invasion of heads of science appeared, which forgot that “since Socialism became a science, it requires to be treated as a science, i.e. to be learned”.
Therefore, the trouble comes not so much that it was “applied” without being learned, but rather from being learned for not being applied.