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of the U.S.S.R. proceeds from the fact that the
capitalist system has been liquidated, and that the
Socialist system has triumphed in the U.S.S.R. The
main foundation of the draft of the new Constitution
of the U.S.S.R. is the principles of Socialism, whose
main pillars are things that have already been achieved
and realized : the Socialist ownership of the land,
forests, factories, works and other instruments and
means of production; the abolition of exploitation
and of exploiting classes; the abolition of poverty
for the majority and of luxury for the minority; the
abolition of unemployment; work as an obligation and
an honourable duty for every able-bodied citizen, in
accordance with the formula : "He who does not work,
neither shall he eat"; the right to work, i.e., the
right of every citizen to receive guaranteed employment;
the right to rest and leisure; the right to
education, etc., etc. The draft of the new Constitution
rests on these, and similar pillars of
Socialism. It reflects them, it enbodies them in law.
Such is the second specific feature of the draft
of the new Constitution.
Further. Bourgeois constitutions tacitly proceed
from the premise that society consists of antagonistic
classes, of classes which own wealth and classes
which do not own wealth; that no matter what party
comes into power, the guidance of society by the
state (the dictatorship) must be in the hands of the
bourgeoisie; that a constitution is needed for the
purpose of consolidating a social order desired by,
and beneficial to, the propertied classes.
Unlike bourgeois constitutions, the draft of the
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