As much as anything, that is the difference between a communist economy and our own system of free enterprise.

Communist economies, for example, rely much more heavily on central direction or command.

Forced labor has been essential to the Chinese Communist economy for 40 years, although the world carefully looked away.

When formerly Communist economies modernize, he said, they will be far more energy efficient.

As the communist economy deteriorated, these factories lost significance and most went bankrupt after 1989.

Certainly, there were problems in teaching basic concepts of accounting, marketing, sales and profitability to employees who had known only a planned Communist economy.

And in a further move away from the old Communist economy, one-third of Moldova's 5,000 state enterprises are to be sold off next year.

Moreover, dreadful bookkeeping practices of the Communist economy make it nearly impossible to set a value on a potential partner's assets.

It's true for communist economies as well.

Gorbachev's attempts at economic reform were not sufficient, and the Soviet government left intact most of the fundamental elements of communist economy.