Russians tried the exact opposite: everyone was
required to work in the USSR. You'll get a minor prison sentence for avoiding work (IIRC it was called "went to jail for idleness"). The law was hard to enforce though.
What the blog post describes is, basically, communism. The official communist party line in USSR (correctly) identified the lack of automation (advanced technology) to make it a reality. Basically the official state goal of the Soviet Union was to advance the science and technology towards achieving that goal, hence the repressions against religion, endless attempts to identify and focus "more important" sciences and skip "less important" ones, introduction of pyatiletkas (5 year plans), etc.