Developing now in the world scientific and technological revolution leads to the breakdown of established proportions and methods of production, generates new, sometimes contradictory phenomena and trends in the economic life of society. This process has affected one of the oldest industrial branches of human activity - mining. ...
Before starting the development of a field, it is necessary to discover and explore it, to determine its suitability for industrial development. This requires the cost of social labor, the scale of which cannot be underestimated. Thus, the cost per 1 m of explored reserves varies from 2 kopecks for iron ores to several thousand rubles for some rare metals and makes from 0.1 to 25% of the cost of the final product. In 1951-1956 capital investments in geological exploration amounted to 12.3% of all capital investments in the coal industry, 37.3% in the oil industry, 53.6% in the gas industry.
The Program of the CPSU, adopted by the XXII Congress of the Party, emphasizes the need for the full use of commodity-money relations in the construction of communism, the skillful application of such important instruments of economic development as economic calculation, money, price, etc. “It is necessary to constantly improve the price system, bringing it in line with the tasks of communist construction, with technical progress, the growth of production and consumption, the reduction of production costs, - says the CPSU Program, - Prices should increasingly reflect the socially necessary costs of labor, provide compensation for the costs of production and circulation and a certain profit for each normally operating enterprise.”
Среди богатейшего идейного наследства, оставленного В. И. Лениным, важное место занимает кооперативный план. Учение В. И. Ленина о кооперации как главном пути приобщения к социализму многомиллионных крестьянских масс является основой аграрной политики пролетариата в переходный период от капитализма к социализму. Коммунистические и рабочие партии стран народной демократии, опираясь на ленинский кооперативный план и творчески используя опыт социалистического преобразования сельского хозяйства в Советском Союзе, успешно осуществляют кооперирование крестьянства.
The experience of the Russian and world workers' movement during the fifty years that have passed since the first Russian revolution has emphasized the depth and vitality of the ideas and theories put forward by Lenin in the years of the revolution, the correctness of the revolutionary tactics of the working class party justified by him.The theory of land nationalization, developed by Lenin in the main features during the revolution of 1905-1907, is a brilliant example of creative development in the new historical situation and application to the specific conditions of Russia of the basic provisions of Marxism on one of the most important issues of the revolution.
