Party Organizations and Production Associations

Abstract

At the present stage of development of the economy, the most important conditions for improving the efficiency of social production are improvement of its structure and methods of management, intensification of concentration and specialization, and the strengthening of ties with science. These processes are determined by the very nature of large-scale machine production. Marx wrote that "increase in the scale of industrial enterprises serves everywhere as the point of departure for broader organization of the joint work of many, for the broader development of its material motive forces, i.e., for progressive conversion of scattered and routine production processes into a socially combined and scientifically directed process of production." (1) Lenin, developing these propositions, emphasized: "In order to increase the productivity of human labor directed, for example, to making some little part of the entire product, it is necessary for the production of that little part to become a specialized operation, to become a production process of its own, having to do with the mass product and therefore admitting (and requiring) the use of machinery, and so forth." (2)