ABSTRACT
Our critics may point out that the process of incorporation of the trade unions is something which happens de facto in capitalist societies anyway, and that it is misleading to emphasise these features of their role in the communist world, for the main difference is that there, at least, they are not incorporated to serve the purposes of their class enemy. Religious organisations presented a different kind of problem. On the one hand they seem, at least from the point of view of the belief system of the party, to be 'on the way out'. The processes of secularisation, implicit in the rationalisation of the modern world by capitalism, are carried still further under communism and, given the clear formulation of ideological objectives in communist thinking. It is natural that a definite move in the direction of anti-religious propaganda should occur. On the other point, the communist world has made advances along lines pioneered in the West.
