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The paper analyses the communist treatment of labour in Bulgaria in the first two decades after the establishment of the socialist rule. It examines the figure of the worker as an ideal type of communist person. The article also studies the communist negation of idleness and the relation between idleness, sexual corruption and moral disgrace. The main emphasis is laid on the conceptualization of idleness in terms of anti-communist resistance. Also the concept of “body machine” is introduced to reveal some aspects of this extremely high valuation of labour on the one hand, and of the neglect of pleasure on the other hand. Key-words: discipline, body machine, communist bio-politics, labour camps. En el articulo se analiza el trato del trabajo en las dos primeras decadas despues del establecimiento de un Estado comunista en Bulgaria. Se examina la figura del trabajador como modelo de persona comunista. Tambien se estudia la negacion de la ociosidad asi como la relacion entre la ociosidad, la corrupcion sexual y la desgracia moral. El enfasis principal esta puesto en la conceptualizacion de la ociosidad en terminos de resistencia anticomunista. El concepto de “cuerpomaquina” se introduce para revelar algunos aspectos de esta extremadamente alta valoracion del trabajo, por un lado, y de la negligencia del placer por otro lado.

The creation and use of the body machine in the first two decades of the communist rule in Bulgaria