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The Taylorization of Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Author(s) -
Scoville James G.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/0019-8676.00228
Subject(s) - scientific socialism , marxist philosophy , socialism , scientific management , scientific revolution , sociology , epistemology , neoclassical economics , transformation (genetics) , philosophy , political science , law , management , economics , communism , politics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
In 1913, Lenin’s view of scientific management could only be termed scornful. By 1918, his views had changed dramatically: Importation of the Taylor system was fundamental to the success of the Revolution; without it, socialism would be impossible. I contend that the scientific claims of Taylorism meshed with Marxist claims to scientific socialism in the transformation of views.