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By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted February 10, 2011 at 11:30:53

Funny how an article about locally run economics gets accused of North Korea style nationally planned economics.

North Korea, and most communist states, are based on the same "model" as large corporations - the old Prussian Military military hierarchy. Ford is credited with implementing it here with his mass production techniques, Lenin in the east with his planning bureau. And that's why, in terms of decision-making structures, they both tend to look very similar. And why both of them so often fail.

What fascinates me most about the Cold War isn't how different the sides were, it's how fundamentally similar. The cold logic of industrialism, imperialism and power led to so many nearly identical 'innovations' on either side. Each had many brilliant counterpoints, but at the end of the day, neither one was willing to doubt whether their brilliant ideas should be imposed by force on hundreds of millions of people, and directed by a "brilliant" elite at the top.

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century." — Lewis Mumford

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