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Really capitalism is just libertarian socialism except the proletariat is replaced with capitalists
And the nonstates hands it all to that class
See that retardation
>It's jsut like socialism because race the proletariat or something
For real, kinda this
Reject capitalism
return to feudalism
Oh misread that
A state acting in the interest of a group when not even nationalizing the entire economy is not socialist
> Reject capitalism
> return to feudalism
@vexmasina44
Based
You gotta use that term properly and sparingly
Then no state would be socialist, however
Or barely any
Soviet Russia had a planned economy so it is
Planned as in all major buisness being state run
Did they socialize prostitution though?
Did they also plan on collapsing in 1991
was that also part of their planed economy
Yes, but they didn't plan with the common good in mind
I think it was outlawed by Soviets Splaet
They had this ambition but in the end, interest groups prevailed
But they didn't socialize girlfriends therefore the soviet union wasn't socialist because they didn't socialize everything.
The issue with the Soviet model is that the statistics for economic development are toilet paper and most state directed development focused on failing branches of the economy which means they provided an incentive for factories to actually not produce as much as possible and reward dysfunctional branches
The Soviets made their economic calculations using prices from abroad, that alone suggests to me that the problems of central planning are more fundamental than bad leadership
Yeah so like subsidies?
I don't think the major issue was pricing
What they also did is just lower prices without keeping up production
So someone on paper could afford all the food they want but in practice it was first come first served
Slack labour is another point people like to make but it really exists under any system
"I pretend to work so they pretend to pay" is something you see even today
Yes but companies that do that too much tend to go bankrupt.
Not necessarily
Small buisnesses do
There were a tons of problems with it. Bad incentives, bad information for the planners, lack of know-how, but most of that could be solved in theory. That without price signals for them, you cannot allocate non-specific higher-order capital goods rationally, that would break the back of socialism.
There is a lot of dead weight in large corporations
In my company, we all slacked. We were also all fired eventually, so make of that what you will 🤷♂️
huh
i did exactly the same
Yes there is, they suffer from a lot of the same problems like governments do.
I don't think the issue with their plans was prices
They were simply rewarding the least effective parts of their economy to become more developed
why does this keep happening to me
fired for no good reason
Not prices per se
Prices for capital goods
Idk. Afaik when corn output looked bad someone like Krushchev just focused attention and resources exclusively there
Which leads to negative consequences