> As far as Soviet centralized planning goes, I think we all understand
> that it was a massive failure.
Nyet, comrade. What was call Soviet planning was simply a war economy imposed on the place by sheer necessity, nothing more, and it was thanks to that war economy that Europe was freed of Fascism. Soviet CP also helped jumpstart the Chinese and Vietnamese revolutions, and created breathing room for the Euro/Asian developmental states to run silicon socialisms underneath the US Empire's radar. Mighty achievements, these.
-- Dennis