This sentiment was and is liberating. But it has nothing in common with regimented central planning, the competitive selfishness of markets, or the authoritarian sentiments of official Marxism itself. Few commentators today have anything nice to say about Stalin, but the problems of Eastern bloc coordinatorism and political authoritarianism began much earlier. In other writings, listed on page 6, we have traced contemporary difficulties back to weaknesses in the original Marxist theoretical framework. Here we illustrate the anti - egalitarian and antiparticipatory sentiments of the leaders of the Russian revolution.
Man is a lazy animal.
In other words, Trotsky didn't reluctantly accede to coordinator structures out of necessities compelled by the Civil War, as apologists maintain, but because he preferred them. If autonomous workers' organizations must be smashed in the process, so be it. They only prevent those such as Trotsky from protecting workers from the consequences of their own laziness - from ruling the workers to free them, so to speak. Whereas Trotsky appealed to a cynical view of human nature to justify coordinatorism, Lenin appealed to another bulwark of antidemocratic economic ideology, modem technology. By thousands subordinating their will to the will of one.