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p Progress along the non-capital ist road is facilitated both by internal and external factors. The former include: 

p the objective need for social progress in the liberated countries, in particular the need for a national economy resting on present-day scientific and technological achievements; 

p the weakening of the positions of imperialism and internal reaction, the strengthening of the anti-capitalist, progressive social forces, chiefly of the entire working class, and the growing influence of the Marxist parties; 

p the formation and consolidation of the alliance between the working class and the peasantry, the growth of the political activity and class and national consciousness of the working people, the spread of socialist ideas among them; 

p the development of democracy in social and political life, in particular in the trade unions and other democratic organisations; 

p the inability of the bourgeoisie to head radical social and economic reforms or to ensure political and economic independence; 

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p the possibility of the leaders of the liberated countries adopting radical views and of their evolution towards scientific socialism.

p The external factors helping the liberated countries to advance towards socialism include: 

p the noticeable weakening of international imperialism and the mounting strength of world socialism; 

p the successes of the socialist system in economic development, in boosting the standard of living and cultural level of the people; 

p the extensive experience of socialist construction, especially the experience of non-capitalist development of formerly backward countries; 

p the increasingly stronger unity of the liberated countries with the world socialist system and the international communist and working-class movement, as well as of the unity among the developing countries themselves in the common struggle against imperialism; 

p the all-sided and disinterested aid rendered to the formerly oppressed peoples by the socialist countries; 

p the contemporary scientific and technical revolution, which is expediting the movement of the liberated countries from backwardness to progress.

The existence of these favourable factors does not mean that the transition to non-capitalist development takes place of itself, automatically. It requires tremendous effort and dedication on the part of the patriotic forces.