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This argument - that Amazon prefigures a new Soviet-style planning - has been made sincerely. I’ve written a critique here: http://machineryquestion.com/notes/p
by bwestergard 7y ago
This argument - that Amazon prefigures a new Soviet-style planning - has been made sincerely. I’ve written a critique here: http://machineryquestion.com/notes/peoples-republic http://machineryquestion.com/notes/peoples-republic
- morningseagulls 7y ago>This argument - that Amazon prefigures a new Soviet-style planning - has been made sincerely. Because there is evidence that Marxists had tried, and failed, to do what Amazon has now succeeded. Project Cybersyn comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2018/08/project-cybersyn-afterlife-chile-s-socialist-internet https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2018/08/project-cybersyn-... However, what Amazon has done is just characteristic of "organized industries", which Hayek conceded in his essay, The Use of Knowledge in Society, as being a "halfway house" between Soviet-style planning and free markets.