p “Communism,” in the words of the CPSU Programme, “is a classless social system with one form of public ownership of the means of production and full social equality of all members of society; under it, the all-round development of people will be accompanied by the growth of the productive forces through continuous progress in science and technology; all the springs of co-operative wealth will flow more abundantly, and the great principle ’From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’ will be implemented. Communism is a highly organised society of free, socially conscious working people in which public self-government will be established, a society in which labour for the good of society will become the prime vital requirement of everyone, a necessity recognised by one and all, and the ability of each person will be employed to the 223 greatest benefit of the people."  [223•* 

p Communism fulfils the historic mission of delivering all people from social inequality, from every form of oppression and exploitation, from the horrors of war, and brings Peace, Labour, Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood and Happiness to all people on earth.

p The establishment of communism in the world will bring deep changes in all spheres of life—production, social relations, culture and the way of life, people’s ideas and views. Communism will provide all members of society with conditions of life which most fully meet the innermost aspirations of man and conform to the loftiest human ideals.

p Communist society will be distinguished above all by a very high level of continuously expanding production and an unprecedentedly high level of labour productivity resulting from rapid scientific and technical progress. Communist society will attain the highest stage of planned economy and ensure the most purposive and rational use of material wealth and natural resources. People will be equipped with the best and mightiest technology, man’s power over nature will be raised to tremendous heights, enabling him to control its spontaneous forces to a much greater extent and to employ them in his own interests. The aim of communist production will be to ensure continuous social progress, to give each member of society material and cultural necessities and comforts, satisfying his constantly growing requirements, interests and tastes.

p While catering for diverse needs of the people, communism, ^owever, will not be a society of anarchy, idleness and indolence. Labour will be the chief source of its material and spiritual wealth. Under communism everyone will voluntarily work according to his ability, multiplying the wealth and reinforcing the might of society. The very nature of work will change. Labour will cease to be merely a means of subsistence and will turn into life’s prime want, into genuine creative endeavour, into a source of joy and happiness.

p Communism will put an end to the division of society into classes and social groups. Workers and peasants as 224 classes will disappear as distinctions between town and country are eradicated in the social and economic spheres, in culture and way of life, and as the two forms of socialist property merge into one communist property. Manual workers will attain the cultural and technical level of intellectuals and hence there will be no intelligentsia as a separate social group under communism. Each member of society will engage in mental and manual labour, and mental and physical efforts in his work will be organically combined.

p All members of communist society, by virtue of their equal relation to the means of production, will be in the same position, enjoy equal conditions of work and distribution and actively participate in administering society’s affairs. Harmonious relations between the individual and society will become the rule because social and personal interests will be fully combined.

p Human culture will soar to unprecedented heights. The culture of communist society, inheriting and developing all the best created by world culture, will represent a new, higher stage in mankind’s cultural development. It will incorporate all the diversity and wealth of spiritual life, the lofty ideals and humanism of the new society. It will be a classless, internationalist culture of all mankind.

p Under communism there will be a new man, who^^1^^ will combine spiritual wealth with moral purity and physical perfection, and who will have a high communist consciousness, industriousness, discipline and devotion to society’s interests. The exceptional organisation and precision demanded of man by communist production will be ensured not by compulsion but by a profound sense of civic duty. Man’s development will be comprehensive and harmonious; his abilities and talents will be given full rein and will blossom forth, his finest spiritual and physical qualities will be manifested to the full.

The building of communism will signify the attainment of the Communist Party’s supreme goal of building a society on whose banner will be inscribed: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” The Party’s slogan “Everything for the sake of Man, for the benefit of Man" will be applied in full measure.