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Rest of this page missing - if you have a complete copy of a list, respond by allocating less resources than requested to each unit. As a result there are constant hold—ujps in production caused by a lack of spare parts and raw materials leading to waste on a massive scale. Basic consumer goods like soap or toothbrushes or foodstuffs like cheese or butter disappear from the shops for weeks on end.
Parallel to all this is the problem known in the West as ‘labour indiscipline”’ There is no unemployment in the USSR. The only way you get sacked is for engaging in political agitation. The Soviet media constantly rails against the abuse of sick leave and against the epidemic of alcoholism amongst the labour force. There is even ajoke in Russia that the only democratic right the worker has is the right to be idle. Despite their exclusion from.central decision-making individual workers in the USSR do exercise control over the labour THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL AFTER LENIN by Leon Trotsky shows how the the Soviet Bureaucracy put its own sectional interests above the interests of the world working class. The Third International, founded by Lenin and Trotsky, was transformed from the spearhead of revolutionary advance into a tool of Stalin’s Foreign policy. If you are interested in this or other books on the history of the Marxism write to the address with the SR subcription form and we will send you process itself. They determine their own pace of work and how the job is to be done. Like workers in the capitalist countries they generally try to do as little as possible and they obstruct technical innovations because they know that there is very little in it for them as individuals But whereas in the-west-yeu.get sacked for shirking, in the Soviet Union factory directors are relatively powerless. They have little option but to bargain with workers to get anything done at all.
During Stalin’s lifetime brute force was used to keep workers in line but that is not acceptable today. Virtually nobody in the USSR wants a return to the reign of terror that characterised that period. It wasn’t only workers peasants and intellectuals who suffered repression then.
Every member of the elite from Krushchev down learnt to fear the this issue of Socialist Republic please email tive in this context. cracy to desist. discipline. before the cracks emerge.