p After Lenin died the theory of scientific communism was and continues to be furthered by the C.P.S.U. and fraternal Communist and Workers Parties. A large contribution to this has been made by the decisions passed by congresses and conferences of the C.P.S.U., plenary meetings of the C.C. C.P.S.U., and of other fraternal parties, and decisions adopted at international meetings of Communists. These documents represent a skilful application of this theory’s propositions and conclusions to analyses of the present world situation, to the practice of the revolutionary struggle and to the building of socialism and communism.

p The Declaration of the 1957 Meeting of Communist and 53 Workers’ Parties of socialist countries, the Statement of the I960 World Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, the decisions of the 20th, 22nd and 23rd congresses of the C.P.S.U., and the Party Programme adopted at the 22nd Congress of the C.P.S.U. are major milestones in the development of Marxism-Leninism, of the theory of scientific communism. These documents show a creative approach to basic problems of the world liberation movement and of the building of socialism and communism. They deal with the nature and contradictions of the present epoch, the main revolutionary forces of the modern epoch, the possibility of averting another world war, the strategy and tactics of the world communist movement, the diversity of the forms of transition from capitalism to socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat, the general laws of the building of socialism, the development of socialism into communism, the scientific direction of economic and social processes, the ways and means of building the material and technical basis of communism, the formation of communist social relations, the upbringing of the new man, and so forth.

The theory of scientific communism is a Party science, which, consequently, mirrors the interests of the working class and all other working people. It develops in irreconcilable struggle against bourgeois ideology, primarily anticommunism, which has become the principal ideological and political weapon of imperialism. Anti-communism slanders socialism and misrepresents the policy and objectives of the Communist Parties and the theory of MarxismLeninism. The bourgeoisie spends enormous funds and has built up a mammoth apparatus to combat communism, but life and practice demonstrate the great vitality of communist ideas. History convincingly shows that scientific communism is triumphing. The future belongs to it,