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yes this article seemed very obsessed with capitalism more than the movie itself. does the theory of marxism hold that there would be no more container ships
by zzzeek 4y ago
yes this article seemed very obsessed with capitalism more than the movie itself. does the theory of marxism hold that there would be no more container ships, no products shared between nations, no people whose job it is to drive ships, trains and trucks anymore? that's all specific to capitalism? really? like if I wanted a pedometer, someone down the street would be making them ? or we just have no gadgets at all?
- robswc 4y ago>like if I wanted a pedometer, someone down the street would be making them ? If I wanted to strawman marxists, yes; that is what they believe ;) To be more real, eh... if you look at how soviets did their planning they really did attempt to have everything "within 15 minutes." While that probably doesn't apply to something as specific as a pedometer... they do tend to extend that philosophy as far as it will go... reasonably or not.
- TulliusCicero 4y agoDo you have a source that talks about Soviets avoiding centralization/specialization?
- robswc 4y agoWell, I wouldn't say specialization was "avoided" more so it was just incredibly difficult due to it being a planned economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_of_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Ministers_of_the_So... This may provide some insight. I don't want to claim to be a USSR historian, I've just done some light research on another topic that crossed paths and I fell down a well for awhile lol. The problem was that they were so centralized, it made innovation incredibly difficult. Simply put, if there were problems, even if people had solutions, it was damn near impossible to get anything implemented.