It is a basic characteristic of Communism that it makes social change a major pbjective and that it mobilizes all the instruments of the modern industrial State—technology, education, communication media---to accelerate this process. In doing so, it has two objectives. To move as rapidly as possible toward the transcendant goals which are formulated by the leaders, and to keep the society so mobile that non-party groups, which are permitted to exist, have little chance to stabilize and exercise effective influence on its character. In communist regimes, there is what is often called “permanent revolution.”