Sociological and Pedagogical Principles of the Interaction of the School, Family, and Community in Shaping Communist Awareness and Behavior in the Younger Generation

Abstract

The communist transformation of society is linked organically to the education of the new man. The founders of Marxism demonstrated the social meaning of education and its leading role in the development of the human individual. Looking ahead to the inevitable revolutionary transition from capitalism to communism, K. Marx and F. Engels viewed this transition as a process of forming communist social relations and educating the communist individual. Engels declared that the new social order requires new people and creates them. Society organized along communist lines enables its members to apply comprehensively their comprehensively developed abilities (K. Marx and F. Engels, Works [Sochineniia], Vol. 4, p. 336). Marxism looked at problems of education in conjunction with the tasks of the class struggle. Marx and Engels proclaimed the need for social education. In the Communist Manifesto, they sharply rebuked those who criticized communists for their intent to destroy the family, to substitute social educ...