Destatization of Property

Abstract

The country's leading political forces have proclaimed a course toward destatizing property and discontinuing the state's monopolistic position in the economic sphere. Ninety percent of the country's productive fixed capital—estimated at 3 trillion rubles—is the indivisible property of the state. It centralizes in its hands about 80 percent of the national income that is created and manages enterprises directly. As a result, the working people and their collectives have been alienated from ownership of the means of production and the product and from the management of economic affairs: the state has mediated all these processes. Motivations for effective labor and enterprise [predpriimchivost'] were eliminated, which could not fail to bring the entire system to a crisis. To cling to the monopoly of state ownership means dooming the economy to total collapse.