ABSTRACT
The consumer market, with minor exceptions, remains unchanged; the production of consumer goods grows slowly. In the economic sphere, however, people expect debates to produce a direct, concrete, practical result: a clearcut and economically workable strategy for restructuring the national economy. In computerization of the national economy and in scientific and technical progress we are far from the requirements of the age. Enterprises are becoming independent and responsible actors in the economy, while previously they were primarily objects of the activity of higher organs. Economic reform will entail a sharp increase in independence for enterprises and a fundamental restructuring of centralized management, it will entail the reform of planning, price formation, and financial-credit mechanisms. The majority of Soviet economists argue, with some slight disagreements, that the centralized system departed from Lenin's idea of self management by workers.
