ABSTRACT
Market relationships as an expression of certain, so far objectively inescapable, non-antagonistic contradictions of economic interests, reflecting the intrinsic contradictions of social labour, given the existing conditions of labour and of consumption, must develop in the socialist cooperation of society as a whole. The unpredictable detailed changes in the market cannot be eliminated even under socialism, and opponents of market relations need not be alarmed at the fact that production responds a posteriori to changes in the market. Instead, they should endeavour that as quickly as possible the necessary interest and possibility of such a posteriori reaction should arise in a socialist enterprise. Battling for the new, genuinely economic, form of socialist planned management is the main task of Marxist economic theory and practice. True Marxists were always distinguished, however, by the fact that they took note of reality, studied its laws of development and acted in accord with the discovered laws.
