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The Place of the Economy in Society

Summary/Abstract: Most of the present economic difficulties are attributed to an inadequately evolved economic system and to the lack of planning, as well as to the political organisation of the economy, which precludes vertical co-ordination in the economic system and institutions of qualified representatives of the working class in the country's assemblies of delegates. However, economic problems are just the consequence of a general social crisis, which is manifested as an ideological, political, intellectual and moral crisis. Thus, with regard to economic problems, the ideological crisis is manifested in the attitude towards private ownership of land and towards private enterprise, the so-called "small¬-scale economy", which are seen as a good basis for the increase of production and employment. The political crisis, reflected in the impossibility to agree on the country's development, has resulted in the economy in duplication of production capacities, in political lactones, closed markets, etc. The intellectual crisis, for its part, is the crisis of knowledge. The material dependence of the country is merely a consequence of its intellectual dependence. The moral crisis is affecting critical and self-critical mechanisms of behaviour. Economic recovery and development require, therefore, a previous ideological and political settlement of some crucial problems, which the authors groups into four classes: (a) the relationship of politics and the economy; (b) attitude towards "rich socialism"; (c) attitude towards "organized economy"; (d) the change of the method of work of the League of Communists.

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