More than 100 years ago, K. Marx and F. Engels, for the first time in the history of social thought, revealed the lawful connection between the education and upbringing of the young generation on the one hand and the mode of production and the way of life of the people of a given social system in which this generation grows up on the other. Studying the capitalist mode of production, they showed the class-based, bourgeois essence of upbringing under the capitalist system and established that truly human upbringing, all-round development and education of the younger generation are possible only after the proletariat has won political power. They regarded the education, training and upbringing of the proletariat as a constituent part of the struggle for socialism. “The most advanced workers,” wrote K. Marx, “are fully aware that the future of their class, and consequently of humanity, depends entirely on the upbringing of the rising working generation.”

The revolutionary process initiated by the Great October Socialist Revolution continues to develop in the capitalist countries. In the course of the class struggle, the workers are putting forward socio-economic demands far beyond concrete material needs. The main enemy of the working class is the capitalist monopolies. Therefore, the main demands of the working class are aimed at limiting their arbitrariness, at undermining their economic positions. First of all, the demand to give trade unions the right to participate in controlling the activities of enterprises, which makes it possible to restrain the monopolies in their pursuit of profits. Along with this, the political struggle is intensifying.