You've had an earful of speeches by party officials decrying the lack of productivity in your economy;  castigating self-centered indolence on the part of workers;  and proclaiming that everyone must work harder and more efficiently toward the common good, if your society is to survive.

We Americans are more accustomed to hearing this sort of thing in the context of competing with various emerging economies.

Also in your society, we’ve been told that the party officials making these exhortations are not typically capable of performing practical or useful labor themselves—indeed, that their skills consist chiefly of an ability to survive successive purges by leaping nimbly from correct idea to correct idea, each according to the season of its fashion.  At the same time (or so we hear), these officials manage to present to those beneath them a facade of granite-like authority and immutability, creating, wherever possible, an atmosphere of outright intimidation.

Here in America, where we have no all-powerful party, such individuals tend to cluster in corporations, and are known as executives.