民主德国高等和专业教育部为对大学生进行马克思列宁主义基础理论教育,在高校中普遍设立了“辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义”、“资本主义政治经济学和社会主义政治经济学”、“科学共产主义”三门课程,相应编写了三本教科书,本书即其中之一。 到1982年止,本教科书已出过八版。1983年,柏林迪茨出版社出版了该书的第九修订 The Ministry of Higher Education for Democracy and Higher Education of the Ministry of Professionalism has set up “dialectical materialism and historical materialism”, “political economics of capitalism and socialist political economics” universally in order to educate the undergraduates on the basic theory of Marxism-Leninism, and “science Communism ”three courses, corresponding to the preparation of three textbooks, this book is one of them. By 1982, this textbook has been published in eight editions. In 1983, Diez Press published the ninth revision of the book