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Behind the Bastards
Lenin was obsessed with the German postal service and argued that socialism should be planned by a bureaucratic state, leading to a conflict with workers who wanted control of their work.
A witty German social Democrat of the 1870s called the postal service an example of the socialist economic system.
— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 37
Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 37
Lenin was obsessed with the German postal service and argued that socialism should be planned by a bureaucratic state, leading to a conflict with workers who wanted control of their work.
A witty German social Democrat of the 1870s called the postal service an example of the socialist economic system.
To organize the whole national economy on the lines of the postal service, so that technicians, foremen, bookkeepers, as well as all officials that receive no salaries higher than a workman's wage, all under the control and leadership of the armed proletariat.
This is our immediate aim.
Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 37
Lenin's book about the future socialist state was said to be almost all lies, but it contained a passage about the postal service, which he described as an example of a socialist economic system.
A witty German social Democrat of the 1870s called the postal service an example of the socialist economic system. This is very true. At present, the postal service is a business organized along the lines of a state capital of monopoly, imperialism, this whole thing, but like imperialism is making everything also this. But so to organize the whole national economy on the lines of the postal service, so that technicians, foremen, bookkeepers, as well as all officials that receive no salaries higher than a workman's wage, all under the control and leadership of the armed proletariat. This is our immediate aim.
