The "command economy" they're describing is an absurd caricature that has never existed and could never exist.
But I guess an explanation of how central planning actually worked, with its multiple levels of hierarchy, production estimates filtering up, one-year plans based on resource availability, five-year plans to set resource goals, and quotas filtering down, would raise uncomfortable questions like "how is that any different from a corporation?" and "is this what 'running the country like a business' means?"
I remember someone on the old Chapo linking a pretty good run-through of Soviet central planning, but I can't find it now. Everything I can find with Duck Duck Go is about the caliber of these slides.
EDIT: It might have been an episode of Proles of the Round Table that I'm remembering. That seems like the kind of thing they would have done.
Oh god I remember when I was in high school they told me that capitalism was America, communism was Russia, and socialism was Canada
I hate been reminded of the travesty that was high school and I only graduated a few years ago lol
Fun fact, high school was half my life ago and I STILL remember most of the lies!
Ack ack ack they're so wrong about all their assumptions that someone, fifty years ago, had to try really hard to make a lesson plan for some think tank to disseminate that doesn't fall apart immediately if you sneeze at it
Got my bachelor's degree in economics and luckily my primary professor was a swedish socialist who radicalized me from being a dumbass libertarian in high school.
