----- Original Message ---- From: Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com>
Somebody: Chris knows more about this when it comes to the Soviet Union, but it's clear that worker's are less productive when they know they aren't going to be laid off and that there's limited opportunity for wage growth. The cliche "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us," has more than a kernel of truth to it, don't you think? The alternative of course is to turn harsher methods to compel labor, as Trotsky with his visions of militarizing labor and Stalin with his best attempt to put that into practice, revealed. This latter method does seem to work, at least.