Production Collectives and Communes and the “Imperatives” of Soviet Industrialization, 1929-1931

Abstract

There cannot be any doubt that the confusion in the minds of individual Party members concerning Marxian socialism and their infatuation with the egalitarian tendencies of agricultural communes are as like as two peas to the petty bourgeois views of our “Leftist” blockheads, who at one time idealized the agricultural communes to such an extent that they even tried to implant the commune in the factories, where skilled and unskilled worker, each working at his trade, “had to put his wages into the common fund which was then shared out equally. We know what harm these infantile egalitarian exercises of our “Leftist” blockheads caused our industry. Stalin, 1934 Now, brother, we don't toady. Nobody sucks up to the foreman. N. Pogodin, Bakunin commune, Baltic Shipyards