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Abstract
The inclusion in the agenda of Marxist social science of the set of problems embraced by the notion "way of life" and "socialist way of life," and the posing of these problems in Party documents of recent years — above all those of the Twenty-fifth Congress of the CPSU — have given rise to truly unprecedented activity by representatives of various social sciences: philosophers and economists, sociologists and lawyers, historians and theorists of propaganda. The bibliography of books and journal articles has long since exceeded a hundred titles. Yet under these circumstances, each individual taking up his pen to offer "one more" judgment on the problem must start by making up his mind in what system of knowledge (consciousness) the investigation of "way of life" should be undertaken, at what level of examination (reflection) of reality, with what goals, and so on.