Tue Aug 4 07:24:46 2020
<9e126bf3> socialists really think they can do it this time. No wonder they obsess over China.
> With all the above, we think it is abundantly clear (for those who want to see it) that a planned socialist economy is nowadays technologically viable: the supposed “technical” impossibility of socialism is something that has long been overcome. Moreover, the problem of obtaining the necessary information that is sometimes brought up is answered through technical means so widespread as to allow the control of productive processes in real time. When we defend the feasibility of a planned socialist economy we are not talking about a pie-in-the-sky dream: a single year was all it took a modest economy such as the Chilean one in the 1970s, under President Salvador Allende, to kickstart the _Cybersyn_ project, a real-time planned management system of the nationalized industry that tried to democratize the process of decision-making.
<https://mronline.org/2020/05/26/facing-the-ecosocial-crisis-is-a-socialist-planning-of-the-economy-feasible/>
Note the Cybersyn namedrop- they’re bringing this concept back in China absolutely
— MR Online | Facing the ecosocial crisis: Is a socialist planning of the economy feasible?
— The current ecological and social crisis, a crisis which has seen its effects increased by a public health emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, is a crisis which raises serious concerns over…
