The burden of analysis from Phillips and Rozworski (P&R) is that communist planning systems, aside from their multiple affronts to human freedom, failed at logistics, and were further handicapped by the limited computing power available in their heydays. Now we have giant corporations that rely on planning, and they are doing just fine.
How's your EfFiCiEnT MaRkEt lOgIsTiCs going, woke neoliberals? Covid was merely the 2nd SARS, and like the 4th new pandemic in the last 25 years. These disgusting redditors care more about "human freedom" (for their clearly non-human petite bourgeois Stepford Wives friends) than not killing a million people. They do not have a resilient and adaptable system that can survive a crisis like indigenous people were forced to develop. No ability to deal with real life outside their fascist spreadsheets of profit maximizing just-in-time logistics systems :Pete:
Walmart and Amazon are in large part intermediaries – they don’t manufacture the products they sell.
same praxis as these parasitic labor aristocracy who don't have real jobs :DSA:
The authors urge the replacement of hierarchy by democratic procedure: “Democracy is the beating heart of socialism.”
Libertarian socialism AKA market anarchism AKA neoliberalism
Socialism in the U.S. is back, at least as something to talk about, so chances are we are not done talking about planning either.
PMC: (soyfacing at supermarket aisles of textured soy protein slave foodstuffs) "Wow! This barcode information technology, which we built to do the holocaust, is a sign of historical progress!!! Communism imminent"
also PMC: (forced to gaslight working class people) "Soy is a meaningless slur which has nothing to do with our political economy of stealing indigenous land to plant soybeans for our cheap burger meat. There is no alternative to soy, my cows will NEVER eat bugs!!!"
We need a plan to reverse the trend of residential segregation by race.
"we need a plan" lol he said the Liz Warren line! Folks don't we love the PMC socialists at OWS and their neoliberal counterparts?
Especially since the last third of the book is just shit-talking the USSR for seemingly no connection to the broader point, instead of using that space to more explicitly outline exactly how the walmart or amazon logistics and planning chains work. the authors kinda just say "look, walmart and amazon are big, and they are centrally planned, therefore central planning works" without taking any kind of look at those chains, which could have been interesting, informative, and relevant. instead of whining about Stalin for a hundred pages