Alexei Kosygin on socialist vs. capitalist attitudes towards automation:

Among representatives of the capitalist world one can sometimes hear the fear expressed that, insofar as automation releases many people from labour, it tends to reduce security and to create grave difficulties linked with a redistribution of the labour force, both in different branches of production and cultural life, and also geographically. In the capitalist system, this is actually so. Some specialists and politicians think that beyond these consequences of automation there loom the two menacing spectres of overproduction and unemployment.

But abundance cannot be an evil if production, distribution and social organization are based scientifically, clearly planned from the outset, and directed through peaceful channels of development. That is why we, the socialist peoples, together with other nations having rationally planned economies, are striving to introduce automation and are exerting every effort towards its successful development. This is our task – to achieve within the next few years the great transition to full automation of factories and of whole industries.