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4. The Path of Socialist Orientation
 
[introduction.]
 

p The choice of ways of development is a matter of great urgency for the liberated people which involves a clash between social forces inasmuch as different classes and parties offer their own solutions. Reactionary circles, above all the wealthy bourgeoisie and the landowners, strive to steer the development of a nation along the capitalist road, and to retain their privileges, private property and continue exploitation by relying on economic, financial and military assistance of imperialism.

p Society’s progressive forces, the working class and the labouring peasantry in the first place, strive to protect the people against the intrigues of imperialism and take the country along the road of real independence, welfare and progress.

Taking their own experience into account, the peoples of the newly-free countries are becoming more and more convinced that only the path of non-capitalist development, the path of socialist orientation leads to national revival and social progress.

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