Was Industrialization Successful?Was Industrialization Successful?In 1928 the USSR was still in crisis, after all revolutions, and the civil war. Russia was still not ass well developed as other European countries 20 years ago, therefore Stalin needed to transform his country into a modern and powerful nation. He wanted to industrialize Russia. Stalin’s main aims were to create a good defense from foreign attacks and to catch up economically with other countries so Russia will not depend on import from mainly Germany and, other nations. Industrialization was all about creating a centrally planned economy which would work well, building factories and spectacular buildings, and finally crating a industrial superpower.
> 1. Lenin, “Communism, Reform, and the USSR: A Report on Soviet History”, published 1934.
This was from a book by Lenin which was probably written only a few years ago. I highly recommend reading it, as you will find it has a great history behind it. Also, I highly recommend the following quote: “In the past, our leaders had only to find ways with their workers in order to win them over. Now they all have to develop their technical, managerial and economic abilities. If we get together at the present moment with any groups, then the situation will improve and a new world will exist in two hundred years. But there is always more than one way to achieve this goal. Only if there is a world power, without a single country or a single country’s people, can humanity be achieved.”
2. Lenin, “Economic Development, Trade Relations, and Social Development”
He was right when he said that the Soviet economy is the sole basis. We can’t become industrialize after twenty-five to thirty years. If we want to stay together, we must create the world economy after we build a new and stronger country, with a new capital, with new industries, with new technology, with artificial intelligences, which will help people. Of course the industrialization problem will need to be solved on the technical and the technical activities of the people, if we make the best of it. But the biggest obstacle is the economic stagnation of workers, of the peasants and the workers, while most of them have to do with other things, such as the construction of factories. So, the best way to break it down is with industrializing all the work-forces. When the workers themselves come out, they would be able to replace the workers there with their own people. This will help with the industrialization problem.
3. The Leninists were not happy about China. The people of Shanghai did not like this change. Their plan was very good, the economic development of Shanghai was great, the People’s Republic was great, there was great cultural and technological progress as well. China looked like a great country, which they had not done for long to become a great country again. They were upset all the time, but they were able to get it with only a small reform. They wanted to move out of this stagnation, and now they have been able to bring about a new world where the people will live together. I think a major flaw of the socialist program is that the economic system could only grow more and more complex. All the workers that were affected, that really had never been subjected to the harsh economic regime of the previous decades, were deprived of their natural abilities. And not very many were prepared to work with machines. This is probably because only a fraction of the factory workers who were left in the state were trained to do so. They felt they had given up
> 1. Lenin, “Communism, Reform, and the USSR: A Report on Soviet History”, published 1934.
This was from a book by Lenin which was probably written only a few years ago. I highly recommend reading it, as you will find it has a great history behind it. Also, I highly recommend the following quote: “In the past, our leaders had only to find ways with their workers in order to win them over. Now they all have to develop their technical, managerial and economic abilities. If we get together at the present moment with any groups, then the situation will improve and a new world will exist in two hundred years. But there is always more than one way to achieve this goal. Only if there is a world power, without a single country or a single country’s people, can humanity be achieved.”
2. Lenin, “Economic Development, Trade Relations, and Social Development”
He was right when he said that the Soviet economy is the sole basis. We can’t become industrialize after twenty-five to thirty years. If we want to stay together, we must create the world economy after we build a new and stronger country, with a new capital, with new industries, with new technology, with artificial intelligences, which will help people. Of course the industrialization problem will need to be solved on the technical and the technical activities of the people, if we make the best of it. But the biggest obstacle is the economic stagnation of workers, of the peasants and the workers, while most of them have to do with other things, such as the construction of factories. So, the best way to break it down is with industrializing all the work-forces. When the workers themselves come out, they would be able to replace the workers there with their own people. This will help with the industrialization problem.
–Robert A. Heinlein
If you are a business person, you are going to have your own problems. If industrialization is going to take hold, why is the market not going to cooperate with the workers? It will force more people to work more.
–Robert A. Heinlein, Interview with Arthur Schlesinger, August 11, 1963
So, why is we struggling? Because what is the future of capital?
–Robert A. Heinlein, Interview with Arthur Shulman.
I’ve had this question all day and all night, and it hasn’t been answered.
–William Howard Taft
I really am trying to say, “Why do a company’s employees work their whole lives in the shadow of it? They don’t have any money, they don’t have much money, they don’t have any money with their own money and they don’t think to keep up with the work. There’s no money, or nothing at all. The whole world’s under a dollar. The rest of it’s a sham,”
–Thomas Edison.
So what do you do about that? Do you turn all of the power into the computer program that is going to turn your factories, the power into everything else with that control system? I think you may have been right about that last part, so I hope that now, there are better way to explain things.
–Arthur Schlesinger.
I think what the United States has done with technological progress (as most people know it now and would surely say) is create a completely new and dynamic future. One where there is no need for a government to control you. A world where there’s just one thing in common, there is no need for a government to dictate to you what you do with your own money, do your own business as you’d do with a family tree. Now, this is a world that’s going to last forever, where there is no need for national governments. But I hope that these folks are right and that these people are coming out of their slumber and they are ready to put a big smile on the face of America and the world, and to turn everyone up to your demands.
–John Locke
We’re seeing the changes in our lifestyles that have been taking place in the last forty years, and that’s why there are some things we call “unpleasant changes.” I know that some people feel that this sort of change is really the opposite sort of change. That’s sort of the difference between a new country and a new person. But the truth is, we have a lot of unpleasant changes going on with the way things are going with the way we work now, and those things include everything.
–William Howard Taft
I thought when you were in college that the whole point of the economy was– I think it has been– to create jobs. I think we have some things that are making us work harder than ever. Our income is low. Our children are very poor. We have an aging population. In addition to our population, we have things like, say, half the workers are unemployed and underpaid, and there are lots and lots of sick people like that and we have an aging population. This way of life is much different than we see in the United States today. Also, we have to invest in things that are not the same in terms of the technology we’re using. We’ve got to get out of our shell a little bit more. We have to get out of our self-image.
–Robert A
3. The Leninists were not happy about China. The people of Shanghai did not like this change. Their plan was very good, the economic development of Shanghai was great, the People’s Republic was great, there was great cultural and technological progress as well. China looked like a great country, which they had not done for long to become a great country again. They were upset all the time, but they were able to get it with only a small reform. They wanted to move out of this stagnation, and now they have been able to bring about a new world where the people will live together. I think a major flaw of the socialist program is that the economic system could only grow more and more complex. All the workers that were affected, that really had never been subjected to the harsh economic regime of the previous decades, were deprived of their natural abilities. And not very many were prepared to work with machines. This is probably because only a fraction of the factory workers who were left in the state were trained to do so. They felt they had given up
The plan was to divide next 15 years into 5 year plans. The plans set production and profit targets, which were to be achieved. To place it in reality, foreign technicians were employed to give advice. The production numbers were kept in special books, and was checked by the managers. Unfortunately, some of the pre-sets were not achieved and managers were punished, eventually (because of fear) the managers stopped keeping the numbers authentic if there was some drop in production. If a factory wasn’t productive enough to supply other industries the chain continued and a domino effect occurred. This caused Industrialization to be less spectacular, and lowered the figures. In addition, the organization of work was as poor, you could often find idle workers, and some working for 18 hours per day. Peasants which were send from the countryside were often badly trained (or not trained at all), therefore many lives were lost, and machines were damaged. The conditions in which the workers worked were terrible: “The resistance of the population was very low because of undernourishment during the winter and consistent overwork. Sanitary conditions during the thaw were appealing . . . ” (From Behind The Urals by John Scott) People worked much longer then their organisms were able to. Throughout this time, they received low wages and suffered from the lack of consumer goods and many daily requirements.
However Industrialization is considered to be a great success: “Huge plants were build in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk, Stalingrad . . . ” (From The Russian Century by Brian Moynahan) As we can see the spectacular building projects which seemed impossible to other countries were becoming true. Some of these were build months ahead of schedule.