January 1990
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Problems of Economic Transition
The heightened attention currently paid to property problems in the USSR is not accidental. L. I. Abalkin is right: the understanding of "the identity of the real agents and carriers of property relations in our society" has been lost.>sup>1>/sup> And at the same time, we add, the state's regulatory influence on the national economy has diminished. But why has something like this happened, thereby making the radical reform of management inevitable? What has happened to our property relations, and what practical conclusion can >i>perestroika>/i> policy draw from this? How do they correlate with Marxist-Leninist ideas of social progress? These are questions I would like to explore in the process of discussing A. P. Butenko's article "On the Nature of Property under the Conditions of Real Socialism."