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.
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.