Again, you overstate, the rationality and effectiveness in reaching advanced levels of social provision, the Soviet planning mechanisms. You ever skim, say, Rutland, Peter. The myth of the plan : lessons of Soviet planning experience / London : Hutchinson, 1985.
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A great book. The best short discussion of Soviet planning in English.
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You ever read issues of the UK socialist journal, "Critique, " edited by Hillel Ticktin devoted to Soviet studies? Ticktin had some good debates with Ernest Mandel.
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ThoughHillel believes in magic perfect planning that somehow (he never says how) avoids all the problems he identified in the Soviet system all those years.
Michael P, will you stop flailinga way at Stalinist perfidy? Those Partisan Review Hellman-Mary McCarthy battles are really warmed over dreck at this point.
jks
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