p The cultural revolution consummated on the basis of socialist economic, social and political reforms, gives birth to a qualitatively new, socialist culture. This new culture rests on the achievements of socialist society in science, art, literature, education, moral development, and so forth. Farther on we shall deal with these elements of culture, with their place in the developing socialist society and with their role in moulding the fully developed man. At this point we shall only note that socialism puts an end to the division whereby there is one culture for the ruling classes and another for the oppressed classes, which is inherent in a class-antagonistic, 185 particularly capitalist, society. It creates a single, people’s culture. Socialist culture, which is internationalist in content, aims to strengthen and promote socialism, and friendship and co-operation between different nationalities. It is a culture that is national in form (language and other means of expressing content), and this makes it particularly close and understandable to every nation, big and small, gives it access to and facilitates the enrichment of other national cultures and promotes an internationalist culture, which is common to all nations. Marxism-Leninism, the only scientific philosophy that advances the florescence of culture, is the ideological foundation of socialist culture and harnesses it to the great cause of socialism.

In capitalist society cultural achievements are the property of the privileged few. Under socialism these achievements belong to the whole people. Each member of socialist society has every possibility of receiving an education, working creatively in production, science or art and improving himself morally. In capitalist society creative work is monopolised by the ruling classes with the result that these possibilities are denied to many people. The essence or inner nature of socialist culture is profoundly humanist. It is created for the working man as a vehicle for his intellectual improvement and serves lofty, truly human ideals.