Recently started and it’s incredibly insightful, even just for more in-depth historical context around movements of the time period. Also chuckled that the intro mentions a couple times social-democracy being the “left-wing of the bourgeoisie/fascism” 
Also I learned what “Taylorism” is, and I don’t think it can be overstated how much middle-managers have always sucked 🤮 https://web.stanford.edu/class/sts175/NewFiles/Taylorism
Taylorism played a huge role in the Soviet union. Lenin embraced taylorism, though with less enthusiasm than other Bolsheviks, and argued that taylorism was necessary because “Russia was a bad worker” who had to be “Taught how to work”.
Stalin considered taylorism combined with the revolutionary nature of the soviets “The essence of leninism”.
And Gastev put Ford up there with Marx as revolutionary figures.
Not to sound too anti bolshevik here. But when you read their writings on taylorism and workers management in general, it becomes pretty obvious that pretty much just Shliapnikov of the initial bolsheviks ever had a factory job
Yeah I was confused by reading that it was embraced since it comes off at face as anti-proletariat. I’d never heard of Shliapnikov, but from a brief scan of his writing (Theses to the Ninth Party Congress “On the relations between the Russian Communist Party, the soviets, and production unions.”), seems more in line with what I’d expect from labor that’s done labor.