According to David Satter, "The core of the problem is that Gorbachev is trying to induce workers to show initiative by giving them rights within a Leninist framework, whereas initiative is a characteristic of freedom and presupposes the existence of genuine human rights" (The New Republic, June 13, 1988, p. 21).
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