As Maurice Brinton correctly argued, ???it is ridiculous to claim ??? as so many do today ??? that in 1917 the Bolsheviks really stood for the full, total and direct control by working people of the factories, mines, building sites or other enterprises in which they worked, i.e. that they stood for workers??? self-management.??? [The Bolsheviks and Workers??? Control, p. 27] Rather, Lenin identifi