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Socialism as practiced also implies heavy centralized planning to mandate these arrangements and then set price floors and ceilings to set production capacity.
by anon291 3y ago
Socialism as practiced also implies heavy centralized planning to mandate these arrangements and then set price floors and ceilings to set production capacity.
The Amish tend to reject social ownership of land so they are not socialist or communist by any means. Distributist would probably be the best description with any mention in the literature.
- harimau777 3y agoCentralized planning is only a feature of certain forms of socialism. It's generally not a feature of democratic socialism or the various anarchist forms of socialism.
- piva00 3y agoHeavily centralised economic planning is a feature of Marxism-Leninism, not of Socialism.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoWhat large corporation doesn't have central planning? Do you think every factory just makes up their own schedule and makes what they want?
- anon291 3y agoTo be clear, I'm usually against large corporations as well, because of this very point. Especially, when they -- as in America and many other non-socialist states -- use their lobbying power to capture the market via regulation. However, there still is a fundamental difference between centralized corporate planning and centralized planning by the monetary authority. Corporations have to deal with market supply/demand, and we've seen enough examples of large companies simply going bankrupt to rest assured that large corporations are not invincible.