Gastevism

Gastevism is the ideology of Soviet Scientist, Aleksei Gastev. Gastevism wants a heavy Industrial society ran by Bio-Robots (Humans that are like Robots). Gastevism aspires for Extreme Collectivism, to the point of no individual liberty. There is no You or Me, only WE. Gastevism calls for extreme Taylorism and Scientism, for the most efficient workers; since Gastev thought that Robots are superior to Humans, humans should become Bio-Robots. In the book "A People's Tragedy", Orlando Figes described him as "As the head of the Central Institute of Labor, established in 1920, he carried out experiments to train the workers so that they would end up acting like machines. Hundreds of identically dressed trainees would be marched in columns to their benches, and orders would be given out by buzzes from machines. The workers were trained to hammer correctly by holding a hammer attached to and moved by a hammering machine so that after half an hour they had internalized its mechanical rhythm. The same process was repeated for chiseling, filing, and other basic skills. Gastev's aim, by his own admission, was to turn the worker into a sort of 'human robot' (a word, not coincidently, derived from the Slavic noun robota meaning work). Since Gastev saw machines as superior to human beings, he thought this would represent an improvement in humanity."

Wikipedia

 * Aleksei Gastev


 * Central Institute of Labour


 * Ustanovka

Youtube

 * Work and repeat - Taylorism - Aleksei Gastev


 * Red Flood Timelapse: The Rise and Conquests of One State