State Power and Self-Government Under Socialism

The experience of history offers persuasive evidence that socialism can take firm root and develop successfully only if the power of the working class is solid and rigorous, and if that class acts in alliance with all other working elements of the population, if society is led by a Marxist-Leninist party, and if there is a carefully structured and active state. That state must function as organizer of economic, political, and cultural development. Socialist ownership of the fundamental means of production must prevail in an environment of extensive application of the principles of socialist democratic procedures. The communist and workers' parties of the lands of the socialist commonwealth, basing their activity on the universal regularities of the struggle for socialism and communism, creatively develop revolutionary theory and strive for further progress in all spheres of the life of society.