2. In expectation of the socialist revolution occur-
ring in the highly industrialized countries of the West,
the theorists of Marxist-Leninism have clung to the
letter of Marx's critique of capitalism and his predic-
tions. For decades they have painted a picture of mass
misery and starvation in the West. They have denied
that capitalism has been modified in any significant way
and that the Welfare State exploits the workers any
less than the more individualistic economies it re-
placed. On the contrary, their claim is that economi-
cally the rich get richer, and the poor become poorer—
and the rest is bourgeois propaganda.
