The Workers Opposition in Russia

Questo libro di storia potrebbe contenere numerosi refusi e parti di testo mancanti. Solitamente gli acquirenti hanno la possibilita di scaricare gratuitamente una copia scansionata del libro originale (senza refusi) direttamente dall'editore. Il libro e Non illustrato. 1921 edition. Estratto: ...The trade unions as class organizations of workers built up in conformity with their industrial functions must take on themselves the major work in organization of production (boldface ours). "Major work" is a too indefinite term which permits of various interpretations, and yet, it would seem, the platform of the "Ten" gives more leeway for the trade unions m running the industries than Trotzky centralism. Is this the case, however? Further, the theses of the Ten go on toexplain what they mean by "major work" of the unions. "The most energetic participation in the centers which regulate production and control, register and distribute labor power, organize exchange between cities and villages, fight against sabotage and carry out decrees on different compulsory labor obligations, etc." This is all. Nothing new and nothing more than what the trade unions have already been doing, and which can not save our production nor help in the solution of the basic question--raising and developing the productive forces of our country. In order to make clear the fact that the program of the "Ten" does not give to the trade unions any of the directing functions, but assigns to them only an auxiliary role in the management of production, the authors of it say: "In a developed stage (not at present, but in a developed stage) the trade unions in their process of social revolution must become organs of the social authority, working as such, in subordination to other organizations, toward carrying out the new principles of organization of the economic life." By this they meant to say that the trade unions must work in subordination to the Supreme Council of National Economy and its...