The Stalinist Planned Economy

The five-year plan is considered to just be sort of like a suggestion. It's really just an object of political contestation between all of these bosses who are actually running everythingYeah so I mean it's really a kind of tributary kind of mode of production where they use the draft plan or whatever as a smokescreen of legitimation for their like extraction regime. The adjustment was determined through political struggle is pretty much how it worked.