Problems of CommunismDocumentary Studies Section, International Information Administration, 1978 |
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Page 6 - We cannot demand that scientists and technicians, or at any rate, the overwhelming majority of them, study a lot of political and theoretical books, participate in numerous social activities, and attend many meetings not related to their work. Lin Piao and the "gang of four...
Page 68 - A socialist government really intent upon socialism has to decide to carry out its socialisation programme at one stroke, or to give it up altogether.* The very coming into power of such a government must cause a financial panic and economic collapse. Therefore, the socialist government must either guarantee the immunity of private property and private enterprise in order to enable the capitalist economy to function normally, in doing which it gives up its socialist aims, or it must go through resolutely...
Page 13 - Second: Speed up the development of the basic industries and give full scope to the leading role of industry. As the economy becomes modernized, the leading role of industry, and especially that of the basic industries, becomes more and more prominent. We must /take steel as the key link,/ strengthen the basic industries and exert a special effort to step up the development of the power, fuel and raw and semifinished materials industries and transport and communications.
Page 36 - US Department of State, Communist States and Developing Countries: Aid and Trade in 1972, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, August 1973.
Page 32 - Commission considers the Final Act of the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the followup process important to the evolution of the security arrangements in Europe.
Page 27 - ... between the Western Sectors of Berlin and the Federal Republic of Germany will be maintained and developed, taking into account that these Sectors continue not to be a constituent part of the Federal Republic of Germany and not to be governed by it.
Page 42 - Libertac.ao de Angola — FNLA), and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Uniao Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola— UNITA).
Page 2 - It is this alliance that constitutes the most important force in defending national independence, etc." (Para 101). The present situation is characterised by the following features : the authoritarian dictatorshinp has been removed with the electoral defeat of the Congress and the restoration of civil liberties and democratic rights. But the anti-emergency struggle and the electoral victory have not led to a shift in the balance of forces in favour of the working class, ie, the masses have not moved...
Page 7 - Facts past and present show that we Chinese have a head and two hands just like others and are no stupider than they. The key lies in the correct line. . . . We can learn anything, provided we rely on the enthusiasm of the masses. No difficulty can stop us, provided we rely on the united strength of the masses.
Page 6 - ... skin" to attach to and whether to keep to the proletarian stand. But, generally speaking, the overwhelming majority of them are part of the proletariat. The difference between them and the manual workers lies only in a different role in the social division of labor. Those who labor, whether by hand or by brain, are all working people in a socialist society.