ABSTRACT
A purposeful determination of the development of social production under socialism is assured primarily by the planned economic activity of production, exchange and distribution. This chapter explains the necessary contradiction arising within socialist labour, which cannot be eliminated by socialist planning and must be solved by specific commodity-money relations. Socialist labour is a complex of objectively necessary economic relationships. Market relations help to assure that the labour expended in the enterprise tends to be socially necessary. The main expression of socializing of labour, socialist national cooperation, is generally the direct social orientation of labour. The direction of the development of economic activity, according to recognized necessity, is an aspect of planning-management, direction of the development of economic activity, inseparably connected with planning. The realization of the value of goods produced by socialist enterprises goes on within the cooperation and the limits of the planned development of all society.
