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p As the world revolutionary process and the building of communism advance, the remnants of the old mentality and of the illusory philosophy based on stereotype patterns will be removed. When survivals of social and cultural inequality disappear, when the gap is closed between theory and practice, between labour and beauty and between moral views and the circumstances of life, when the source of social wealth is the appropriation by man of his own productive energy and of the energy of his mind, and labour becomes the principal means of the individual’s selfdevelopment, even the possibility for ideological prejudices appearing in the mass consciousness will fade away. Elements of the sense of contentedness and the sense of wretchedness, of false optimism and disastrous nihilism, which are historically transient, will recede into the past once and for all.

This scientifically substantiated, unshakable confidence in the communist future, in the triumph of reason and humanity, in the attainment of universal happiness comprises the core of the optimistic philosophy of those who work for, defend and build the future.

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