Gorbachev's plans for the Socialist Commonwealth In 1972 the Comprehensive Program for Future Intensification and Improvement of Cooperation and Development of Socialist Economic Integration, announced by CMEA, dropped the notion that there is a separate socialist economic system. Instead socialist countries belong to the World Economic system together with market economies. This, of course, raised the question of a new approach to the integration of the socialist economies, which must proceed as a part of the worldwide integration. The Program also adopted the idea of direct links between Soviet and satellite enterprises, which would in an indirect way reintroduce joint economic planning. Gorbachev's plan includes that aspect of integrat...