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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

“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/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Do you have stuff on this? Not sources, I'm not asking you to prove you are correct, I was wondering since you said this that you may have something that I can take a look at.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours 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.)