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r Vhat To Demand? According to the preeent leaderahip, ve are conauming more than vhat ve are producing. Bút vould it nőt be closer to the truth to aay that economic policy ia ainking more intő inveatment projecta, vhich vili never pay off, than vhat it has been able to take avay írom the conaumera? Dntil the leaderahip admita ita reaponaibility fór the evolved aituation and eliminatea the cauaea of vaateful Capital formation, it vili be in the vorkera' intereat to attempt to vring higher vagea and benefita. Dntil then the only anaver society vili be able to give to appeala fór economization vili be: "They cannot aquander vhat ve have already eaten." Bút ve muat realize that higher vagea and benefita vili nőt help ua in the long run. There ia a price to be paid fór the criai8, regardleaa of vho ia reaponeible fór it. Hovever, it ia nőt all the aame hov ve pay that price. Either there vili be a program to atabilize and reform the economy, and then it vili be neceaaary to aeaume temporary loaaes fór the aake of reatoring markét equilibrium. Or there vili be no economic atabilization and reform, in vhich case ve vili have to bear the conaequencea of the decline. Since ve have to pay anyhov, it ia in our national intereat that ve pay fór the reform, rather than fór having miased it. The reform vili mean catching up vith the vorld economy'a developing régióné. Sabotaging the reform vould mean ainking among the atagnating countriea of the Third World. What are the prerequiaitea fór catching up?- Equal righta fór the varioua forma of ovnerahip in the economy'a markét aphere. Legal aeaurancee fór eatabliahing priváté buaineBaea and fór priváté Capital inveatment. Uniform taz rules, credit conditiona, bueineaa and foreign-trade opportunitiea fór every type of bueineaa organization and every enterpriae.- Reetriction of demand through monetary control, rather than tbrough the arbitrary, administrative vithdraval of income.- Curtailment of official tinkering vith the price and vage mechaniams.- Development of a money markét and Capital markét, and a aubatantial reduction of the proportion of Central (nonmarket) inveatmenta.- Diamantling of the proliferating monopolies, the breakup of enterpriaeB of unvarranted large eize, and the eatabliehment of many enterpriaea of email and médium a ize.- Inatead of adminiatrative compulaion to export and re8triction of import, a flexible price policy in the intereat of balance-of-trade equilibrium.- Abandonment of the program of CEMA aelf-aufficiency, and an opening to the vorld economy. Within CEMA, the expanaion of bueineaa relatione betveen £ £ ♦
