Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of
time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the
history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful
revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time
and that this reorganization had a direct impact on the design of
the central political, socioeconomic, and cultural institutions of
the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991.
According to Hanson, westerners tend to envision time as both
rational and inexorable. In a system in which 'time is money, ' the
clock dominates workers. Marx, however, believed that communist
workers would be freed of the artificial distinction between
leisure time and work time. As a result, they would be able to
surpass capitalist production levels and ultimately control time
itself. Hanson reveals the distinctive imprint of this philosophy
on the formation and development of Soviet institutions, arguing
that the breakdown of Gorbachev's "perestroika" and the resulting
collapse of the Soviet Union demonstrate the failure of the
idea.
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