ABSTRACT
This chapter inquires the consequences of the goods famine, the problem of equilibrium in our economy, and the question of the economic course dictated by the economic situation. An imbalance in the distribution of productive forces in an economy with commodity—money exchange will be reflected first and foremost in prices. It is quite obvious that under existing market conditions not only the state economy as such loses, but state workers and employees lose too, to the extent that they buy their food on the free market. Comrade Stetskii holds that the main cause of our present economic difficulties is "the complexity of the task of establishing and discovering the proper relations between the socialist nucleus of our economy and the petit bourgeois encirclement, between large-scale state industry and the peasant economy.".
