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I see Russia is again trying what failed in the past.

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You are either ignorant of history or you have a different definition of what constitutes failure than normal people. State directed economies have been objectively the most successful model in human history for rapidly and as widely as possible improving material conditions.

What has failed in the past and continues to fail is actually the liberal economic model.

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Which command economies are providing increases in material conditions right now?

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China, Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, Belarus, DPRK, and if it is true that Russia is switching to a more state driven model then you can count Russia too because they are seeing a lot of growth with even more forecasted to come.

Meanwhile most of Europe is in recession, the US only has fake financialized growth, while the countries in the global south where the neoliberal model has been imposed are utter failures, just look at the disaster in Argentina.

You seem confused as to what the terms we are using actually mean since you speak of “command economies” rather than state led economies. State led does not mean absence of a market and it does not imply total economic planning. It means that the commanding heights of the economy are in the hands of the state which steers the overall direction of the economy. It does not have to look exactly like the USSR did, though that was a very successful model that was fit for the purpose of turning a backwards agrarian society into a modern industrial superpower.

And by the way, many of the advanced capitalist economies also got to where they are because in the past they employed state driven models of economic development as well as heavy protectionism. This is particularly true for Japan and occupied (“South”) Korea, but also for European countries like Germany (the latter just did it earlier).

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China, obviously for one. Also Russia according to the article.

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Well, Russia for one.

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Check out “People’s Republic of Walmart” it’s great, goes into how the big corporations are centrally planned and that’s why they’re so efficient. Second Thought did a 10 minute cover of it if youtube essays are more your style.

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You’re right. They will never convince the west to shed their liberal brainworms.

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Failure is when your economy gets better. In the past, failure is when you go from a feudal backwater to a spacefaring superpower in the span of a single human lifetime. If only they could be economically successful, like Britain or America.

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I mean, if everything else has failed, you might as well check any other alternatives you’ve relied upon…

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beat the USA in the space race

“failed”

utterly delusional

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