Leningrad, where the democratic weak, Gorbachev gave the workers' councils full powers opposition now controls the city over the internal organization government. He is a member of the of workplaces. This was an
Socialist Party, a recently formed left attempt to get the economy out party, of which Boris Kagarlitsky is of the crisis into which it was sinking.
one of the most prominent figures. He gave the following interview to end of July.
ISITING Leningrad, you're struck by the fact that all the politicians, regardless of what tendency they belong to, have the same refrain. According to them, the catastrophic situation of the economy can only be solved by market reforms. What is the reason for this mind set?
In fact, most politicians think that in the future our economy can function efficiently only through the market. This is the fruit of the propaganda deluge turned on by the party leadership. For years, it has been advocating the market. The journalists, researchers, scholars and so on have taken up its line. Also, you have to realize that today such ideas can be proclaimed out loud (before, those who thought that way kept quiet or intoned that our "socialist economy" was the best).
You have to put this together with the fact that for years the West's standard of living, production and efficiency have been far superiors to ours, and the various attempts at reform have failed.