ABSTRACT
The concept of political system is established largely on the assumption that human political activities are conducted within a larger social system. The state and society scheme could probably also help students of comparative Communism to see those aspects of activities that are compromising and mutually complementary, and those aspects of activities characterized by conflict and tensions, with equal clarity. Society under Communism is constituted by those activities, values, and interests, together with other spheres of human existence over which the state has failed to gain effective control. Theoretically speaking, an ideal pluralist society or political system is a society or political system that has accepted the existence of a multiple number of interests and recognized the latter's legitimate claim to the making of public policy or the exercise of state power. Shifts in intra-elite relations are often related to the origin of the Communist elite as a product of the revolutionary movement.
