ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the most explosive political questions involving the very foundations of the entire Soviet socialist system or existing conditions are frequently discussed in ideological code. Antagonistic contradictions are attributed to the capitalist system as motor forces of revolutionary change. Nonantagonistic contradictions contain, as it were, the kinetic energy of socioeconomic progress and as such are to be encouraged methodically in socialist society. The discussion of the possibility of antagonistic contradictions in socialism, originally encouraged and covered by Chernenko, has been going on since September 1981. The theoreticians of the Chernenko group had learned from the unprecedented "lesson" of Poland during Brezhnev's lifetime. In February 1984, A. Butenko, section-head in the Academy-Institute for the Economics of the World Socialist System, had again confirmed the existence in the Soviet Union's ideologically based political science of two schools of thought.
