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Collective planning is not inherent to communism and communism doesn't inherently restrict the sort of market forces that enable "creative destruction".

• mseebach 10y ago
  It's important to remember in these kinds of debates that there are two kinds of communism: The practical communism, the one actually tried dozens and dozens of times, despite implementing a pretty fair range of possible combinations of parameters, yet returning a the same pretty narrow range of failures pretty invariably -- and then the theoretical communism, as read and understood by contemporary western intellectuals for whom practical communism (or, as it's often known, "not real communism") is mostly irrelevant. With that, your observation is entirely correct, but it pertains to theoretical communism. The GP was likely referring to practical communism, and in that context, yes, practical communism most definitely inherently restricts market-driven creative destruction. (Cool side-anecdote: Karl Popper invented the scientific method partly in response to Marxist "science".)