>Researchers are judged on published papers? Publish papers that appear just good enough to be published, ignore everything else. Products are bought based on looks on price? Make a cheap product that appears just good enough to be sold, ignore everything else.
This is not often blamed on Leninism, which to me is weird, because of the frequency with which Leninist polities show cults of personality, multi-decade tenures of heads of state, micromanagement of media and public communications, and use of public shaming as a tool to control mid-ranking mopes. And of course, I don't need to explain what a struggle session is.
If the governance and judicial practice consistently obeys the maxim that popularity = good and shame = bad, it doesn't seem surprising that that value system would reappear in the proletariat. Proponents of "radically democratic" systems would be wise to consider ways to mitigate this phenomenon.
This is not often blamed on Leninism, which to me is weird, because of the frequency with which Leninist polities show cults of personality, multi-decade tenures of heads of state, micromanagement of media and public communications, and use of public shaming as a tool to control mid-ranking mopes. And of course, I don't need to explain what a struggle session is.
If the governance and judicial practice consistently obeys the maxim that popularity = good and shame = bad, it doesn't seem surprising that that value system would reappear in the proletariat. Proponents of "radically democratic" systems would be wise to consider ways to mitigate this phenomenon.