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...Communist Party ready to endorse the notion of private property? Not in so many words. Moscow party boss Yuri Prokofiyev, who was a member of the committee revising the platform, reported that the debate last week over property was so intense that "it took hours just to write one sentence." Sometimes the differences appeared to be more semantic than real. Instead of "private" property, for example, the document was amended to read property derived from "individual labor." The new easing of restrictions might allow for the emergence of small, privately owned businesses or permit factories to form their own private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let The Parties Begin | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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