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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 10:19 AM EDT |
That's a rather narrow view of social history you've got yourself there,
Pilgrim...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 09:51 PM EDT |
You miss the point of the joke: The Soviet system wasn't all
that different - all it changed was who was exploiting who,
in just the same manner as before.
It didn't implement communism, and to the extent they even
tried to implement socialism, the form of socialism is
implemented was a regressive one of a type that Marx had
described as "feudal" and criticized as early as in the
Communist Manifesto.
As for Norway, Norway never tried to implement a planned
economy. Norway, as *most European countries* operated with
limited state control of some industries coupled with
rationing after the war as a crisis management measure. And
it worked, but it was never intended to last - Norway's
Labour Party had been firmly social democrat for decades by
the time of the post war government, and were not looking to
maintain a planned economy.
But it's worth also noting that the idea of a planned state
controlled economy as a method of building socialism is a
Bolchevik invention, not an inherent property of a communist
or socialist system - it was first insistuted largely there
too as a crisis management measure during war times, but
kept because it conveniently helped centralizing power in
the hands of the new elite - directly in contravention of
the ideology they claimed to want to make reality.
There's nothing preventing a socialist or communist economy
from making use of market mechanisms to determine allocation
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