ABSTRACT
Self-management is based on the fundamental principle of production management under socialism: the principle of democratic centralism, the implementation of which permits the successful combination of the ever broader participation of the masses in management with state centralized management of the economy. Socialist self-management of production should be viewed as the highest form of involvement of the working people in management, which makes it possible to mobilize the labor, intellectual, and moral potential of the work collective to the maximum degree. The economic independence of the basic link is a condition, a means of activating the human factor, of raising the socialist enterprise and creative initiative of members of the work collective, and is integrally connected to the self-management of production. Production self-management cannot be realized if the self-management functions of the collective are carried out contrary to administrative actions or if the economic manager regards decision-making by the work collective as a violation of one-man management.
