The best features of "Guild Socialism" could nowhere have been so
easily adopted.[70] But instead of effort in these directions, we find the
Bolsheviki resorting to the _Taylor System of Scientific Management
enforced by an individual dictator whose word is final and absolute, to
disobey whom is treason_! There is not a nation in the world with a
working-class movement of any strength where it would be possible to
introduce the industrial servitude here described:
The most conscious vanguard of the Russian proletariat has already
turned to the problem of increasing labor discipline. For
instance, the central committee of the Metallurgical Union and the
Central Council of the Trades Unions have begun work on respective
measures and drafts of decrees. This work should be supported and
advanced by all means. _We should immediately introduce piece work
and try it out in practice. We should try out every scientific and
progressive suggestion of the Taylor System_; we should compare
the earnings with the general total of production, or the
exploitation results of railroad and water transportation, and so
on.
The Russian is a poor worker in comparison with the workers of the
advanced nations, and this could not be otherwise under the regime
of the Czar and other remnants of feudalism.
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