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> when the whole system is collectively planned and owned It's funny. It is not that capitalism does not tend towards central planning. When companies fuse and

• digi_owl 10y ago
  Or form a cartel where the prices and features from each member is decided as a group. That said, i don't think even Marx considered central planning as more than a transitional stopgap. Thing is that he expected socialism to rise from industrialized nations like England or Germany, not near-agrarian Russia. Also, his primary motivation was for workers to have more say in the factories they worked in. But then few people even know volume one, where as in volume two and three he rails against the rentier capitalists. And lament how in the long run it would be better for industrial capitalist to side with the workers against the rentiers, but that they rarely do so until it is effectively too late.