ABSTRACT

Interests are recognized objective characteristics of being, and economic interests are the recognized objective goals and conditions of economic management. Centralism, as opposed to arbitrariness and bureaucratism, not only does not suppress the interests of the managed but under conditions of socialist democracy is able to contribute to their full and free expression, to their manifestation in a socially useful way. Interests, as recognized objective goals and conditions of economic management, are acquiring a real rather than an abstract meaning. They are coming to characterize a real readiness on the part of the subjects of management to play an active role. With the restoration of democratic centralism the passivity and the indifference that characterize command and pressure methods of management are being replaced by active participation and interest. The change in the style of management means that working people regain a real scope for the active expression of their own interests.