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The nomenklatura would invent the most ridiculous arguments ("Condemned as a capitalist tool") to avoid any criticism, to suit their planned programs, corruptio
by m0skit0 12y ago
The nomenklatura would invent the most ridiculous arguments ("Condemned as a capitalist tool") to avoid any criticism, to suit their planned programs, corruption, and unjustified spendings.
- brudgers 12y agoreplacing class-conscious workers and human soldiers—who could choose not to fight for the bourgeoisie—with obedient robots. The correctness of politics aside and in regard to labor economics, that wasn't a particularly inaccurate prediction of the computing technology's arc under the pressure of capitalism's logic.
- M8 12y agoYeah, reminds me of USA spying on everyone "to prevent terrorist attacks".
- avdicius 12y agoThis might be surprising but planned programs of the pesky corrupted nomenklatura sometimes used some science and computing as well. Look at this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich He received Nobel prize and (horror!) Stalin prize for his work in mathematics and using mathematics for evil planning of economic programs.
- m0skit0 12y ago"(horror!) Stalin prize" "using mathematics for evil planning of economic programs" I hope this is ironic.