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to corrupt the proletariat and other working people withbourgeois ideology.The collectivization of agriculture turns individual intocollective farmers and provides favourable conditions for thethorough remoulding of the peasants. However, until collectiveownership advances to ownership by the whole peopleand until the remnants of private economy disappear completely,the peasants inevitably retain some of the inherentcharacteristics of small producers. In these circumstancesspontaneous capitalist tendencies are inevitable, the soil forthe growth of new rich peasants still exists and polarizationamong the peasants may still occur.The activities of the bourgeoisie as described above, itscorrupting effects in the political, economic, ideological andcultural and educational fields, the existence of spontaneouscapitalist tendencies among urban and rural small producers,and the influence of the remaining bourgeois rights and theforce of habit of the old society all constantly breed politicaldegenerates in the ranks of the working class and Party andgovernment organizations, new bourgeois elements and embezzlersand grafters in state enterprises owned by the wholepeople and new bourgeois intellectuals in the cultural andeducational institutions and intellectual circles. These newbourgeois elements and these political degenerates attacksocialism in collusion with the old bourgeois elements andelements of other exploiting classes which have been overthrownbut not eradicated. The political degenerates entrenchedin the leading organs are particularly dangerous,for they support and shield the bourgeois elements in organsat lower levels.As long as imperialism exists, the proletariat in the socialistcountries will have to struggle both against the bourgeoisieat home and against international imperialism. Imperialismwill seize every opportunity and try to undertake armedintervention against the socialist countries or to bring abouttheir peaceful disintegration. It will do its utmost to destroy422