The deepest hopes and aspirations of socialism were reflected in hierarchical organization of the economy. "The market itself will cease to exist."' As Lenin put it: "The whole of society will have become one office and one factory .. .2 In a system of market organization, the relations between men are expressed as relations between things, and "the process of production has the mastery over man, instead of being controlled by him.""3 To revolutionary socialists, commodity production, by which is meant the production of products for exchange on the impersonal market (as opposed to production for direct use by an individual, a family or community), manifested the economic relationships and reflected the economic organization they wished