needless to say this applies to bourgeois science and philosophy officially taught by official professors in order to befuddle the rising generation of the propertied classes and to coach it against internal and foreign enemies. this science will not even hear of marxism declaring that it has been refuted and annihilated. marx is attacked with equal zest by young scholars who are making a career by refuting socialism and by decrepit elders who are preserving the tradition of all kinds of outworn system. the progress of marxism the fact that its ideas are spreading and talking firm hold among the working class inevitably increases the frequency and intensity of these bourgeios attacks on marxism which becomes stronger more hardened and more vigorous every time it is annihilated by official science