The Effectiveness of Utilization of the Production Potential

The articulation of long-range tasks, the total assessment of the conditions of economic construction, and the scientific substantiation of ways of accelerating economic progress are characteristic of the party's economic policy in the period of developed socialism. As noted at the Twenty-sixth Congress of the CPSU, the highest goal of the party's economic strategy in the '80s is the uninterrupted improvement of the living standard and cultural level of the people, the creation of optimal conditions for the comprehensive development of the individual on the basis of the further increase in the effectiveness of social production and higher labor productivity, and the greater social and labor activism of the Soviet people. The practical attainment of this goal will require vast resources. By the year 1990 national income used for consumption and accumulation must be increased 1.4 times.