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055 - Socialist Labour Time Planning, with Tom O'Brien, Part 1

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The Grey Economy and the Five-Year Plan

"This isn't a social system at all like the society doesn't exist here it's just these dead-eyed psychopaths roaring at each other and that's how everything actually works" "It is this very charismatic tyranny of these these bureaucrats just you can get out to be the most machismo sort of dudes or whatever and get their will that way" 'There was the whole grey economy right of like yeah just sort of borderline criminals sort of stuff which had to like patch over the cracks,' he says. "'The real guidance in planning develops only after the plan has been drafted' they say, with Goss as an example," writes David Walliams. "[Trotsky] suggested

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