...education and expertise required for effective performance. "The accounting and control necessary for this have been simplified by capitalism to the utmost,...of watching, recording and issuing receipts, within reach of anybody who can read and write and knows the first four rules of arithmetic."" In Lenin's...

...matters when he wrote of socialist administration: "The bookkeeping and control necessary for this have been simplified by capitalism to the utmost,...within the reach of anybody who can read and write and know the first four arithmetical rules . . . When most of the functions of the state are reduced to...

...revolution, Lenin wrote that "the bookkeeping and control" necessary for running a socialist economy were "extraordinarily simple operations of watching, recording and issuing receipts, within the reach of anyone who can read and write and knows the first four arithmetical rules." He also said, more pithily,...