Word: libermanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five months ago Ukrainian coal mine No. 9 near Lvov was cut loose from the tentacles of Soviet planning and made a test case. The test was the first application to heavy industry in Russia of Professor Evsei Liberman's Western-style theories of profit guidelines and greater autonomy for factory managers-theories that are already proving their superiority over Marxist regimentation in the Soviet consumer-goods sector (TIME cover...
...effort is also being made to satisfy Russia's growing consumer demands both in quantity and quality. Some 400 factories are continuing to experiment with supply and demand and profit guidelines as promulgated by Kharkov Economist Evsei Liberman in an effort to gear the economy away from planning fiat to what buyers want (TIME cover, Feb. 12). Moscow has launched a concerted drive to improve Soviet advertising, even sent the female director of a Moscow store to visit the House of Dior in Paris last month with an eye toward more stylish Russian dress designs. The Kremlin is considering...
...EVSEI LIBERMAN...
...Liberman admits as much. "It is clear that, at first, shortcomings will turn up in the course of practical application; that people will surely rail at the system and its authors, and that people will say it must be abolished and thrown out immediately," he told a group of fellow economists. "I foresee all this, but if we economists work together in a united front, go through the painful period of the introduction of the new system together and do not panic, we will be performing a good service in building the technical base of Communism...
...Liberman is of course right in insisting that he is not ushering in "capitalism"-that dirty word the Communists have never really understood for all their ranting against it. But the current search for incentives to get the Russian economy moving again is nonetheless an eloquent testimony to the failure of one of Communism's cardinal creeds: that the profit motive is wrong and evil, and unnecessary in running a society. People, insists Marxism, can be made to work like soldiers-or saints-solely for the good of the state. The great debate, whatever comes of it, has demonstrated...