
055 - Socialist Labour Time Planning, with Tom O'Brien, Part 1
General Intellect Unit
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The Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan
Soviet democracy as a system of living regulation by the masses that didn't exist so literally the it was living all came down to one special state departments. There were many economists and theorists at this time who actually wrote about the problems of planning for example Preya Wazinsky once a representative theoretician of war communism argued in his book The New Economics that only after the transition to socialism with the economy be coordinated on the basis of direct calculation of labor time then the Stalinists come in most of these theorists are executed or purged branded as Benchevic counter-revolutionaries.
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