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> GOSPLAN Mentioning the Soviet Union's economic planning commission has the whiff of red-baiting. What's a real objection?
by cratermoon 3y ago
> GOSPLAN
Mentioning the Soviet Union's economic planning commission has the whiff of red-baiting. What's a real objection?
- brigadier132 3y agoThe objection is that this is a country that guarantees freedom for individuals. Freedom encompasses economic freedom, you can't have a free nation without economic freedom.
- cratermoon 3y ago> this is a country that guarantees freedom for individuals It does a piss-poor job of that for the majority of individuals > Freedom encompasses economic freedom That's a relatively recent, capitalistic, construction. See, e.g. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes
- standardUser 3y agoEvery nation in the world, including the US, has a vast public sector, some form of industrial policy, and several libraries worth of economic regulations.
- notacoward 3y agoWould you say that most people in the US have economic freedom, or has its limitation just been outsourced from the official government to the shadow government of cronies?
- pinewurst 3y agoIt was shorthand, albeit probably too obscure, for failed state central planning as an alternative to VC. As for red-baiting, please feel free to fill in the destructive authoritarian stasis of your choice.
- cratermoon 3y ago> the destructive authoritarian stasis of your choice. Three words: Florida under Ron DeSantis
- pyrale 3y ago> please feel free to fill in the destructive authoritarian stasis of your choice. Can we fill in VC-funded authoritarian companies like Palantir? Can we ask which share of 3-letter agencies' data come from VC-funded companies? I mean, your point would have made sense 25 years ago, but VC-funded companies have made stasi look like amateurs in recent times.