Cooperation and Democratic Reforms in the Economy

Abstract

M. S. Gorbachev's report "The October Revolution and Restructuring: the Revolution Continues" notes that restructuring has advanced the further intensification and development of socialist democracy as a primary task. This is the firmest guarantee of reforms in politics and economics, in that it will preclude any manner of backsliding. Cooperation is one form of democracy that has proven its viability and its social significance. Cooperation today is not only an important form of socialist self-management, but is also an effective means of developing the national economy.