Special Features of Socialist Reproduction at its Present Stage

Socialist expanded reproduction has certain qualitative special features of significance during the period of allout upbuilding of communism. These features are determined by internal and external conditions of the economic development of the USSR in this new stage. These features are characteristic both of the development of the productive forces, which is the process of all-out upbuilding of the foundations for communism in material technology, and of the expanded reproduction of the relationships of production, which is presently a dialectical process of reinforcing socialist relationships of production and of gradual transition thereof into communist relationships.

Commodity Production Under Socialism

Like other production relations, commodity relations are conditional upon the historically defined nature of property. Therefore, it follows that research into the necessity for commodity production under socialism should include an investigation of the features of property under socialism. There are no differences of opinion among economists about this. But there are great differences of opinion about the question of what features of socialist property make necessary the existence of commodity production.