Socialist economic integration

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The scientific and technical cooperation as well as the mutual complementation and interdependence of the socialist countries represented in the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon) are called socialist economic integration . The socialist economic integration was an expression of the socialist international socialization of production and work and the progressive internationalization of economic life. It existed as an ongoing process until the self-dissolution of the Comecon and the collapse of the socialist camp in 1991.

Basics

According to the resolution, the foundations of socialist economic integration were the "principles of socialist internationalism, respect for state sovereignty and independence, safeguarding national interests, non-interference in the internal affairs of the countries as well as complete equality and mutual benefit on the basis of comradely help among the socialist countries ".

aims

Socialist economic integration was a "conscious and systematic process" with the aim of:

  • international socialist division of labor and cooperation
  • Development of a modern, highly effective structure of the national economy
  • Expansion and consolidation of the international market in these countries as well as the perfecting of the commodity-money relationship
  • Formation of stable connections in the main branches of economy, science and technology
  • all-round convergence and gradual adjustment of their level of economic development.

development

As part of the socialist economic integration, the Comecon countries succeeded since the beginning of the 1970s in closely interweaving their economies and thus coordinating production processes internationally. For example, all trams of the socialist camp in the ČSSR were built, while in the GDR the focus was on consumer goods and microelectronics for the other Comecon countries. At the 44th meeting of Comecon (1988) the representatives reaffirmed the agreement “on the gradual development of the conditions for a free movement of goods, services and other factors of production ... with the aim of creating a unified market in the perspective of having previously met the conditions have been examined for it. "

Significance in the GDR

In the GDR, socialist economic integration was very important and was anchored in the SED program, among other things .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author collective: Dictionary of the economy socialism . Berlin 1989, p. 843 .
  2. ^ Communiqué on the 44th session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance . In: New Germany . Berlin July 8, 1988, p. 3 .

literature

  • Dictionary der Ökonomie Sozialismus , Dietz-Verlag Berlin, 6th edition 1989, ISBN 3-320-01267-3