It must also encourage citizens to think, feel and act in a socialist way, and encourage their initiative and creativity in the fight for peace, in order to further strengthen Socialism and at the same time firmly oppose bourgeois ideology. An important concern is to propagate the historical superiority, values and achievements of Socialism, as well as to publicize its unparalleled accomplishments. It should also build pride in what has been accomplished and encourage personal responsibility, to both do more and protect what has been accomplished. This places new demands on the quality and effectiveness of propaganda. Marxist-Leninist propaganda is, above all, directed at deepening the socialist patriotism and proletarian internationalism of all working people.
Socialist consciousness is the foundation of the workers' productive productive activity.
It develops primarily in the process of work. Therefore the political-ideological work concentrates more and more on the development of educational strengths of the workers' collectives, and thus promotes the purposeful participation of the workers in the determining and achieving societal tasks. That requires that ideological work focus on the main goal, the unity of economic and social policies, focusing on the realization of economic strategy, and the fulfillment of the national economic plan. Propaganda contributes to the class consciousness of the workers of the GDR, the consciousness of their responsibility in the fight for peace, their socialist outlook on work, socialist property, their love for the socialist fatherland and for the party of the working class. The constant threat to world peace and the future of humanity by the most aggressive circles of Imperialism, requires the readiness to defend the socialist fatherland uncompromisingly against all attacks of the enemy.