Sytnyk P. The analysis of the basic principles of the socio-political theory of Marxism: ideas and reality.

This work analyses the basic principles and the key definitions in socio-political theory of Marxism in the context of the main achievements in the spiritual and practical experience of contemporary history. The author examines the internalerrors in the theory of communism, and the causes of the collaps of socialism as it was known in practice, In this thesis it is argued that a Marxist humanistic ideal is absolutely impossible to achieve. The author develops an alternative view of the mission of man, of the meaning of his life, and of the related principles of socia; organization. The theoretical material undertakes important issues of actuality, and the search of the spititual and practical development of contemporary socaety, in practicuarly Ukraine. In order to achieve maximum objectivity and concreteness in the scientific search, the author emphasizes in the dissertation the methodological basis of the theoretical analysis as well as he logic of the birth and the historical of the main relations in the subject being researched.