The producing powers...

The producing powers, according to Marxism, dictate to him such knowledge, allowing him to answer the essential ques­tion which we laid out in our Introduction above, and he, in turn, will recur their echo carefully and faithfully. Humanity's capacity to conceive the best sys­tem, then, is exactly its own capacity to interpret the social outcome of all producing powers, returning their echo.

As for the old conventional conception, it is now wrong, since a more modern social conception has been invented What assures the Soviet man that his viewpoint is accurate is the belief that such view represents the new aspect of the social awareness, expressing a new stage of history; so, it has to be correct, unlike old viewpoints It is true, though, that some social views may seem to be new—in spite of their falsehood—such as the Nazi view in the first half of this century, as it seemed as if it were expressing a new development in history But how fast are such…