Lol
I've been learning project management skills recently and am very embarrassed to say it's pretty interesting.
The Toyota Management style, all that stuff, before I looked at it I thought "dude capitalism lmao what a waste of time" - but then when I learned what it was it's just group-coordination.
How do we get large groups of people to perform complex collaborative tasks? This is a question every advanced society has to organise, regardless of whether surplus-value is siphoned off or not.
I figure that human organization and behavior is separable from capitalism, as a discipline, which I guess you conclude with.
Much of that management stuff especially kaizen and others are about things like
- Pushing down responsibilities to line workers for things like quality control and safety
- Iterative processes to allow for experimentation
Scientific management is for sure cool when taken out of its context.
The problem is the context is management figuring how to squeeze more surplus value out of labor.
Precisely the wrong time to recommend a Twitter follow, but this dude posts a bunch about management theory, systems thinking, cybernetics and tech. He is also a communist. Genuinely one of my favorite and most informative follows on the hellsite.
I used to lead WoW raids comprised of 39 other squabbling nerds.
was it back when looting rights were managed by third party DKP tracking systems
Word. I played Planetside back in the day and was commanding hundreds of players for a while. I wish i could cite it on my resume.
It’s not like this is something communists haven’t thought of since like the very beginning of socialist revolutions, Lenin talked about it and so did Che Guevara for example. Socialists know that they need to implement a lot of the management theory that developed under capitalism.
Sure you can keep the day-to-day operations of the factory running and probably even improve it, but can you maximize short term profitability and shareholder dividends by lobbying for preferential treatment and tax breaks from your old school buddy who is now a government official?
Checkmate, commie.
Uh yeah I do. I unlock the doors and count a register down. :screm-cool:
