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Is this going to be a one true Scotsman type defence of Communism? Happy for you to identify a nation state that has communism without central planning.

• p_l 6y ago
  Not "one true scotsman", it's more that the whole thing is more nuanced and last century was under the shadow of Soviet Union, which worked exactly like that for most of its existence. But if you drilled down the official materials deep enough, there was acknowledgement that the system was state capitalism, it was just generally wrapped in vague terms of "building socialism, towards communism", etc. etc. Outside of USSR, most other attempts were quickly "removed" from existence. Technically even in socialist countries in USSR sphere you had somewhat market-acting private companies, though the most "ideologically correct" form of them were co-operatives. China is interesting case, with mix of centrally planned and market economy. But I can't provide enough details (though I've seen glorious poster calling on people to start SMBs to build communism :D) to argue either way. Ultimately - Even USSR called the system state capitalism, with a fig leaf that supposedly the people controlled it.