> generic anti-market central planning Fun story: In history class, we used a text book that showed an election poster by the CDU, Germany's conservative party

> generic anti-market central planning Fun story: In history class, we used a text book that showed an election poster by the CDU, Germany's conservative party, from the late 1940s that advocated central planning. The class was kind of shocked, one student even claimed that it must be a hoax. Our teacher - by German standards a conservative - calmly explained that the conservative party did indeed advocate central planning for the limited objective of rebuilding the German economy - and German cities - after the war. (I am not sure if that was actually implemented, though. But given the amount of destruction in some German cities, I suppose some amount of planning was required to rebuild them.)