• Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself]@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    “The whole working gang is interested in production. The program for next month is discussed with all of us. The foreman calls a meeting and tells us that the administration wants us to put out 3,000 milling tools next month. How shall we do it? We discuss in detail; each of us says what he can do. It all adds up to 4,000. So the foreman goes to the administration and raises the plan to 4,000. […]

    https://comlib.encryptionin.space/epubs/this-soviet-world/

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      2 years ago

      That’s not how quotas were set in the USSR. An analysis of how implementation came to differ from those kinds of ideal descriptions might be in order. Right-out mandatory if you want to call yourself a materialist.

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          2 years ago

          Any anarchist or socdem critique of the USSR. I don’t think there’s actually much in-depth stuff about this because it amounts to “told you so”. Within Marxist theory I guess the Frankfurt school would be worth a look. (Yes, the exact one chuds think rules the world, if only. That is, it’s where “Cultural Marxism” points at while ignoring every single thing the Frankfurt school is actually saying.)