Stalin's Russia and Maoist China are often considered "totalitarian". But in one insufficiently researched area they followed entirely different policies.
From the few data that we have, we know that Stalin's USSR (say, around 1935) had a fairly high degree of inequality.
From the few data that we have, we know that Stalin's USSR (say, around 1935) had a fairly high degree of inequality.
Massive use of Taylorism & piecework rewards led to large wage differences. Stakhanovists were paid highly, so much so that Trotsky thought they might create a "workers' aristocracy". Govt and party top cadres had substantial perks. (Inequality decreased significantly after 1953)
But Maoist China went the other way: equalization of wages, abhorrence of material incentives. This was the very opposite from the practice of "payment according to output" & material incentive which is the essence of Taylorism.
The two communist systems thus ideologically favored two entirely opposite principles in pay: "according to work" or "equality for all".
See my post:
branko2f7.substack.com/p/what-is-the-…
See my post:
branko2f7.substack.com/p/what-is-the-…
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