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1. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 10:01:48 EDT Ji Fu

   For anyone who claims the USSR wasn't state capitalimism "Taylorism, which was a scheme to improve workers' efficiency and break up workers' solidarity." "We must organise in Russia the study and teaching of the Taylor system and systematically try it out and adapt it to our own ends. At the same time, in working to raise the productivity of labour

   
   

   ♲ @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social: #OtD 20 Mar 1856 Frederick Taylor was born. He founded Taylorism, a management technique for increasing workers' output and breaking up solidarity. It was adopted widely across the West and the Soviet Union but resisted by workers everywhere t.co/HnFMhrAq3u stories.workingclasshistory.co…
   

   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 13:41:44 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @fu I think that is evidence that the USSR's state-based Communism wasn't all that different from industrial revolutionary capitalism or even prior mercantile systems. In all three cases, someone manipulates rulers and their laws / enforcement actions in order to enslave and repress those whose labor enabled their prosperity.