it’s kind of ironic that the Germans were obsessed with American economies of scale and mass production (”Fordism”) but it was...
it’s kind of ironic that the Germans were obsessed with American economies of scale and mass production (”Fordism”) but it was the Russians who actually achieved it in practice.
it’s kind of ironic that the British communist Bernal thought Russian agriculture would be so great because, through collectivization, they could farm with the efficiency of an industrial monopoly. When it was Americans who achieved this in practice.
I don’t actually know real facts about this, I’m just judging from 20th-century complaints about the end of small family farms and the rise of enormous conglomerated farms.
there’s a lot of irony to go around!