{"title":"The Task of Justice","authors":"N. F. Naumova, V. Rogovin","doi":"10.2753/RSS1061-1428290351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RSS1061-1428290351","url":null,"abstract":"For two years (1985-86) the problem of social justice and unearned income was discussed on the pages of Komsomol'skaia pravda. The authors of this article also participated in this discussion. Hundreds of letters to the editors in response constitute rich material for reflection. They do not reflect the quantitative characteristics of any general group, but they do represent the qualitative structure and \"phenomenology\" of normative consciousness, including those everyday \"social theories\" with which this consciousness operates. Experience has shown that public discussion of such urgent problems as justice gives rise to a broad range of judgments in which elements of civic and even state thinking may always be found. But these letters also show how difficult it is to cultivate in a person the capacity to be just, and how easily a person loses this ability when his material interests are affected. Sociology must also do its part in cultivating this ability as a key element of public morals. If it does not ...","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"34 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114129865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reform of Management and the Dialectics of Interests","authors":"B. Rakitskii","doi":"10.2753/SOR1061-0154270353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/SOR1061-0154270353","url":null,"abstract":"It is the task of science to understand the essence, the core of phenomena, and thereby to create the prerequisites for radical practical actions. It is gratifying to see how, in the course of restructuring, the interaction of these is being worked out and how concepts that just yesterday were considered to be abstractions are becoming practical concerns. One such concept is that of interests. When discussing the problems of fundamentally restructuring the management of the economy, top-priority attention is being devoted to interests. \"In the final analysis,\" M. S. Gorbachev has noted, \"the meaning of restructuring lies in the consideration of interests, in exercising an influence on interests, in management of them and through them.\"","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115571768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Planning without Bureaucratic Administration","authors":"A. Buzgalin, A. Kolganov","doi":"10.2753/SOR1061-0154280134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/SOR1061-0154280134","url":null,"abstract":"We have all, at one time or another, read about the law of planning [planomernost'] in a textbook on political economy. According to this law, a constant proportionality is maintained in a socialist economy, production is directly coordinated with consumption, and economic management takes place on behalf of and on the scale of society as a whole. We have long been accustomed to the plan being the alpha and omega of our economic life. But actually, although efforts were made not to talk about these matters, shortages in many types of products grew, heaps of unused goods accumulated, economic management \"on behalf of society\" often led to parasitic dependency, and the plan was transformed into a bureaucratic fetish. In such cases, \"according to plan\" often began to be perceived as a dogmatic camouflage for bureaucratic commanding from above.","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133138886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Social Personality Type","authors":"V. Iadov","doi":"10.2753/RES1060-9393310995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RES1060-9393310995","url":null,"abstract":"Perestroika makes its demands on the formation of social character, the social personality type. But perhaps we do not yet fully realize how difficult this process is and how it is mediated. A social personality type is a product of a complex intertwining of historicocultural and socioeconomic conditions of people's life activity. Proceeding from this conception the classics of Marxism stressed the importance of a deep knowledge of a social personality typology evolving in society and especially at revolutionary moments in its development.","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126852845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Nature of Property under the Conditions of Real Socialism","authors":"A. Butenko","doi":"10.2753/PET1061-1991310825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/PET1061-1991310825","url":null,"abstract":"Issues of socialist ownership as the basis of our social system have acquired special importance under present conditions. Emphasizing that the complex of relations relating to this are in a state of flux, M. S. Gorbachev said: \"Unless we are deeply aware of these changes on a theoretical plane, we will not be able to find true practical solutions, and consequently will also be unable to devise measures for inculcating a truly proprietary attitude toward socialist property.\"","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121385605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperation and Democratic Reforms in the Economy","authors":"I. Buzdalov","doi":"10.2753/PET1061-1991310442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/PET1061-1991310442","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116293429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Distribution Mechanism and Social Justice","authors":"P. Aven","doi":"10.2753/PET1061-1991301243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/PET1061-1991301243","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125378775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relay Race of Generations","authors":"I. Kon","doi":"10.1080/15579336.1987.11769941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15579336.1987.11769941","url":null,"abstract":"This period demands that we show initiative and that we make bold, rapid decisions. At the same time, practical experience teaches us to be cautious and circumspect. The scientific-technological revolution aggravates this contradiction to the extreme and does not allow us to wait, to postpone important decisions for \"later on.\" There is a continuous flood of \"crises\" and \"revolutions\"—in ecology, energy, information, computers, etc. At the same time, our technological might is such that erroneous, unreasoned, large-scale decisions can have catastrophic, irreversible consequences. What kind of individual does it take to live and act successfully under such conditions, and how do we take the demands of the age into account in the theory and practice of the upbringing of youth? Youth are always being either praised or scolded. But do we have a good understanding of youth and of our own historical situation?","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127817390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socialist Self-Management of Production","authors":"E. Torkanovskii","doi":"10.1080/15579336.1987.11769938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15579336.1987.11769938","url":null,"abstract":"The creation of an effective system of management presupposes the consistent reform of all forms of socialist democracy. The January 1987 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee attached paramount importance to the development of self-management in the production sphere. Questions in the theory and practice of socialist self-management of production have consequently taken on new importance.","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133757339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Psychology of Independence","authors":"I. Kon","doi":"10.2753/RES1060-9393310957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2753/RES1060-9393310957","url":null,"abstract":"There is hardly any more valuable—and, it would seem, more obvious and definite—personal quality than independence. We can unhesitatingly enumerate the character and behavior traits that are embraced by this concept—internal freedom, internal uniqueness, distinctiveness, nonstandardization, originality. But let us reflect. As a personal quality, independence indeed presupposes (1) the ability to make and carry out important decisions by oneself, without outside coaching; (2) the responsibility and willingness to answer for the consequences of one's actions; and (3) the conviction that such behavior is practicable, socially possible, and morally correct.","PeriodicalId":280471,"journal":{"name":"New Directions in Soviet Social Thought","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115749119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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