Problems of Communism

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Documentary Studies Section, International Information Administration, 1965
 

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Page 95 - The land occupied by collective farms is secured to them for their use free of charge and for an unlimited time, that is, in perpetuity.
Page 25 - ... the most active and politically conscious citizens in the ranks of the working class and other...
Page 42 - She was beaten by the Mongol Khans. She was beaten by the Turkish beys. She was beaten by the Swedish feudal lords. She was beaten by the Polish and Lithuanian gentry. She was beaten by the British and French capitalists. She was beaten by the Japanese barons. All beat her — for her backwardness: for military backwardness, for cultural backwardness, for political backwardness, for industrial backwardness, for agricultural backwardness.
Page 20 - Work in the USSR is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat.
Page 25 - Union (Bolsheviks), which is the vanguard of the working people in their struggle to strengthen and develop the socialist system and is the leading core of all organizations of the working people, both public and state.
Page 18 - États modérés ; elle n'y est que lorsqu'on n'abuse pas du pouvoir; mais c'est une expérience éternelle que tout homme qui a du pouvoir est porté à en abuser; il va jusqu'à ce qu'il trouve des limites. Qui le dirait! la vertu même a besoin de limites. Pour qu'on ne puisse abuser du pouvoir, il faut que, par la disposition des choses, le pouvoir arrête le pouvoir.
Page 42 - To slacken the tempo would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten. But we do not want to be beaten. No, we refuse to be beaten!
Page 52 - Problems of Communism is a bimonthly publication. Its purpose is to provide analyses and significant background information on various aspects of world communism today.
Page 12 - But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations.
Page 20 - Alongside the socialist system of economy, which is the predominant form of economy in the USSR , the law permits the small private economy of individual peasants and handicraftsmen based on their own labor and precluding the exploitation of the labor of others.

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