My Cuban family fled a dictator. Now I’m scared they’ll elect Trump(www.independent.co.uk)

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4 months ago

i think fundamentally, no. The reason is simple, planned economies simply cannot feasibly work, semi planned economies, maybe? Free market and heavily regulated economies, absolutely will work.

Planning and running something as big as a national economy effectively is an impossible task. Even with modern computers, it’s simply impossible, the free market is quite literally the decentralized network of goods and services.

I think the only realistic “variant” of communism is going to be the modern western concept of socialism, it’s a little out there, but theoretically, it’s not that far off of capitalism either. It essentially just removes the capitalist middleman, although even that is a bit of a bear to deal with, because now you have to deal with decentralized ownership and authority, which is known to be quite a tough problem to solve.

There’s also the whole, humans aren’t generally a fan of being put into a box and forced to do X problem also, but i feel like that goes without saying.

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