Just sharing for discussion purposes. Some lefty programmers are creating a buzzword laden system for distributed socialist economic planning.

There's a lot about the exact approach they take that strikes me as reformist and non revolutionary, but at the same time, I think there needs to be a greater emphasis on leveraging cybernetics to advance socialist planning.

Like the forms of planning developed in the USSR and PRC were developed before computers even existed and at least in the USSR they never really updated it. From what I've read the lack of computational power in the planning apparatus wound up being something of a bottleneck for the economy, not to say a fatal one, but you know, something future socialist projects would want to figure out how to address. I'm not too familiar with how economic planning in China works these days so no comment there.

Anyways, just thought it was interesting even if the ideological framework of the Basis Project is a bit odd. But I do wonder what modern computer science might enable in the way of economic planning.