ABSTRACT
Socialism requires a constructive effort of society to plan, control, and improve the economic and social progress of society. The other mechanism is economic decentralization of an economy, so that public jobs are determined quite separately in each enterprise. In socialism all economic and political power must pass to the working class. Therefore, until the former capitalist class has been economically eliminated, the working class majority must exercise its “dictatorship.” In fact, they believed that one of the main arguments for socialism is that it constitutes economic democracy, a necessary extension of political democracy, and an addition of effective freedom to the “merely formal” freedoms of a capitalist democracy. Socialism in economically backward countries tends to be backward in many ways, including the political dimension. Instead of socialism, underdeveloped countries tend toward statism. The precondition for development of statism is an undemocratic, underdeveloped country.
