We’ve done it, comrades! We fought the bourgeoisie tooth and nail and ultimately seized the means of production. We can remake the world in our utopian image. We can rally together, paving the way for a new working class that upholds equity and meritocracy and will hopefully inspire others around the world to do the same. That said, we’re pretty fucking disorganized right now. Does anyone here have managerial skills?
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
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.