Some people say that planned economies, especially those based on Soviet-style Communist economics, such as the Soviet collective farm system, are government-owned serfdom.

North Korea, hobbled by half a century of Communist economics, relies heavily on American, European and South Korean aid to feed its 22 million people.

The Rube Goldberg device that was Communist economics had finally reached a point of irrevocable crisis.

After more than half a century of Communist economics, North Korea is making moves toward freer markets.

The only honest description of the New Economics (socialism) is "Communist economics," since Marx, the father of modern socialism, as we have said, used the words interchangeably.

And Mr. Lebed has denounced Communist economics as "a dead end."

Just as Poland led the way among Eastern European nations in the move to democracy, it is leading the way in abandoning Communist economics in favor of capitalism.

Cuba has been crippled by Communist economics and a generation of U.S. embargo, and is propped up by $5 billion a year in Moscow subsidies.

Second, it is agreed, Czechoslovakia will have an easier time than Poland or Hungary in moving away from Communist economics.

The U.S. may not be able to pressure Beijing to eliminate slave labor because it is so central to Communist economics.