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World Communism at the Crossroads pp 273–304Cite as

Decentralized Economic Control in the Soviet Union and Maoist China

One-Man Rule versus Collective Self-Management

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Socialists of diverse persuasions have long agreed that when socialism is finally triumphant, it will usher in an era of material and spiritual plenty. All workers will achieve a high standard of living, none will want, and interpersonal relations will be suffused with a collectivist ethos in which the full development of the individual is predicated on the full development of the community at large.

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Rosefielde, S., Latané, H. (1980). Decentralized Economic Control in the Soviet Union and Maoist China. In: Rosefielde, S. (eds) World Communism at the Crossroads. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7631-4_13

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