ABSTRACT
A new morality is the natural product of the new social order which the Soviets are seeking to build. It is founded chiefly upon experience as interpreted by reason. In every primitive agricultural period codes similar to the Ten Commandments were evolved, whether under divine or human sanction. In every age morality changes with experience. The morality of one epoch becomes the immorality of another. Ethical conduct in all lands and epochs is regulated either by custom, authority, instinct, reason or experience. Morality always begins as custom; it gradually hardens into law, and only later it rises to the plane of individual reason and reflection. Marx maintained that the ruling ideas have been the ideas of the ruling class. This is equally true today whether in capitalist or in Communist countries. The Russians conceive the theatre, cinema and radio not as an avenue for money making, or even primarily for entertainment, but a school for human behavior.
