Interrelations of the Individual, Society, and the State in the Political Theory of Marxism: The Problem of the Democratization of Socialist Society

The call for the emancipation of minds, a renunciation of stereotypes and routines, and an honest and critical analysis of the processes taking place in our society permeates all the documents of the Twenty-seventh Congress, the subsequent plenums of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and the speeches of the leaders of our Party and government. Today the Party is insistently demanding of philosophers and social scientists mat they step up their creative pursuit of theoretical developments and practical recommendations to expand democratization and openness, and to reform and improve the mechanism of socialist self-government.