eudaemonic

eudaemonic
a) of or pertaining to a eudaemon

During the 1960s and 1970s, many communist leaderships sought to legitimate their rule increasingly through the eudaemonic mode; the various economic reforms in the USSR and Eastern Europe at the time constituted the major symbol of this.

b) producing happiness and well-being

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