European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Amid a tide of change the party is still in charge casting off canons of communism by Charlesj Hanley associated press he i ook ". At Home Iri,r, s Sverdlov Square a bearded, figure Hen from Granite forever Ourn Muniru worke s of the world to United u in Omi to. Square in Oha Iulai. Or along Budapest s Lenin Boulevard or eve on Marx in revolutionary Luanda. Ai Viou " Century socialist Saye Karl Marx might up a Unicorn to Lable hero in Theale ?0th. A tide of change is n Inq through the one third of Tho world made by mar " where h May it a beyond foretelling in China the co Mimir Shaw do commune pm Tho Arr. Selling hundred1, of millions of peasants Loose to reap their own profits. In Budapest. Enter priming hungarian businessmen Are hiring private proletariat. In Alrick a socialist president who mys he made a Biff mistake is handing nationalized plantations Back to private interests. In other communist led nations As Well. Marx s heirs Are turning to Cap Aliss tool1 to woo foreign investors and inspire their own workers the ambitious chinese even talk of opening a Slock Market in the biggest of All people s republics. A Stock Market for r socialist country. Id s say it s concedes american communist party economist Victor Perlo. It s More than unusual says toward a. How Cal. A specialist in socialist economies at Washington s Oroukin Coq institution. It in t judging just what is marxist has perplexed the world Ever since the original marxist Tell it 102 years ago. Marx himself refused to give cookbooks Tor the development of socialism West German scholar Gert leptin noted in an interview. In fact much of the current change does not relate directly to Marx s theories but to stalinist centralized controls a latter application of Basic marxism. The new communist Cooks Are not just tinkering with recent recipes however. They also Are sinning against some commandments of Marx who denounced the marketplace condemned Man s profiting from the labor of fellow Man and crystallized communist theory in one phrase abolition of private again and again in recent interviews those who follow socialist systems closely Aid communist leaders Are grouping looking for any Means to put new life into their struggling economies. They Are not about to take Down the statues or rename the avenues or surrender the absolute Power their communist parties now Wield. Bui they Are casting off some Century old canons. The event to watch closely the experts say is next february s 27th Congress of the soviet communist party when new Kremlin Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev can show whether he intends to open up the world s original marxist state a country whose stale economic system has kept the Price of bread the same for 30 years to the latest wave of innovations. The roots of change actually can be traced to Moscow the year 1957 and Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev said leptin an economist at Wesl Berlin s free University. The first major step away from real socialism was when Khrushchev sold machinery 1fbm"the stale arms to leptin said. Up until then control by the state was considered a higher level of economic and social development higher than control by groups like the movement soon stalled in the soviet Union. But by the late 1960s neighbouring Hungary was Lesting out its own Brand of goulash a system of advanced worker incentives decentralization and eventually limited private Enterprise. In 1976. The communist parties of East and West Europe meeting at a historic East Berlin Summit declared there were Many roads to China farm couple new spirit of private enter Pfilf soon was taking the wildest Detour of All. Beginning in 1978. Two years alter revolution patriarch Mao tse Tung died new Leader Deng dismantled Mao s huge system of state run co farms. Today 90 percent of China s More than million peasants till their own land on Long term from the state. Encouraged by the dentists More than 9i private businesses have opened in China so restaurants tailor shops and other services Wotli seven workers. Local factories have taken on m Market decision making. Prices Are being Dere foreign investors have been invited in. Mao s successors have even imported Cadillac the o capitalists As Olli Cial limousines. Something i working the chinese eco nor ahead at a breathtaking 13-percent Rale in 198i leaving discarded theory in the dust. Marx Clad capitalism were Correct the chinese party our Flag explained but his concepts of socialism so in their East europeans living in the soviet Shadow i dropping the old ways As easily As the chinese i shed their Mao suits. But trends Are Clear. In Hungary private restaurants and shops we nine employees Are Llo rising. Sell employed the Drivers cruise Budapest s streets. Moonlighting technicians can sell computer software develop their basements. Thirteen percent of Hungary s Farmland is nov privately held reports Washington consultant i Vanous. A specialist on soviet bloc economies the rest is worked by profit minded cooperate re Are branching out into Small scale manufacture the hungarians have de emphasized soviet National production plans. Plant manager list up output and wage plans geared to profit and productivity. In the latest Reform workers Are of boards of state owned factories weakening the of Central party bureaucrats. In Bulgaria private plots Are now Check ered an agricultural system once totally collect sized Poland one Lilly of construction work is now do tue of Karl Marx in London. Page 14 the stars and stripes sunday
