Flaws in TheoryâZigzags in Practice

The orientation of the economic reform toward inspiring socially useful activity on the part of all participants in economic life is correctly viewed as its most important social reference point. But the situation is open to a number of interpretations. It is one thing when the masses, step by step, join in the actual creation, adoption, or rejection of a new economic order. Then the growth of productivity and the improvement of the quality of the work become the direct consequence of the social elevation of every member of society. And it is something else altogether when a new economic order is developed by a small circle of reformers with the agenda of attaining a specific "return" in production and labor.