The Interaction Between Production And Social Needs In Planned Economic Development

In its varied aspects and the mediate forms in which it is manifested, the relationship between socialist production and social needs constitutes the content of objective economic laws of socialism—in particular, the basic economic law which, as we know, predetermines the most complete satisfaction of the constantly growing material and nonmaterial needs of society through the steady growth and improvement of production. To gain a proper understanding of the role of social needs in socialist reproduction, one must at least schematically define the content of this category and the patterns that determine the volume and structure of social needs.