[lbo-talk] Angela-a-Day

[Somebody Somebody]

Nor does Cuba have a high level of labor discipline either. Yet, we could say that both countries sought to improve labor productivity, in the absence of the same level of economic incentives which characterize capitalist countries. Trotsky is a well known example in this regard - voicing the need for socialist trade unions to be conveyors belts of state policy and instruments of labor compulsion when in power, and becoming a critic of authoritarian socialism in exile. Socialists on the margins of capitalist society are rather free wheeling when it comes to labor issues (let's introduce a 20 hour work week, abolish all labor divisions and pay differentials), in power they're either Stakhanovites or free market reformers.