 Elimination of the bourgeoisie's social and financial power by expropriation of landed and industrial property was accorded absolute priority.These measures were publicly billed as "reforms" rather than socioeconomic transformations.Except for initially in Czechoslovakia, activities by political parties had to adhere to "Bloc politics", with parties eventually having to accept membership in an "antifascist bloc" obliging them to act only by mutual "consensus".