The Dynamo and the Virgin
Like the original scanner, I'm a serious devotee of Soviet constructivist art. Beyond the intuitive appeal of the form, I'm fascinated by the degree to which the message in early Soviet propaganda resonates with charity today. Not surprising, really, in part due to the degree to which the ideology of Soviet production adopted the principles of Taylorism, which is also a direct ancestor of the principles that animate social entrepreneurship.
Below: engineering creates the mechanism of efficient production by supplanting the spirit of obsolete faith.
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Wow - that's a confronting and challenging post. Thank you. Naively, I had thought:
Taylorism: bad.
Quality (especially as practised at Toyota): good.
Social enterprise: good.
Soviet central planning: bad.
Now I'm going to have to re-examine a whole set of assumptions and tease out the good and bad parts of each ...
So what are you implying for social enterprise? Does it need to refocus more on its original purpose and less on efficiency?