—-”Q: Curt: Was communism ever a good idea in Russia?”—-
(a) Russia practice State Socialism, with a central economy, and it was never possible to achieve communism. (It never will be). And using the communist-to-socialist (platonic) frame of reference confuses the issue. Instead, Russia created a fully militarized State, and ran the country as **an industrial age military organization**.
(b) A military doesn’t use the market process. It creates a command economy. It organizes to produce strategic goals. The benefit of a militarized society with a command economy, is that without a market process it does not need to pay market wages. Everyone has a ‘rank’ with prescribed benefits. In this sense, Russia took Napoleonic ‘total war’ to the extreme, as a permanent political, economic, social, and familial order. Her only mistake was in attempting to ideologically expand. She made the same mistake as Hitler: ideology over empiricism.
(c) So the **benefit** of a military order over a market order is that the savings from not having to pay market wages (wages always consume profits), could be invested in the production of commons. It’s this massive production of commons that allowed Russia to modernize.
(d) the **drawback** is i) the problem incentives, ii) the problem of economic calculation, iii) the problem of skill atrophy, iv) the problem of creating a market for corruption, v) the problem of creating a black market, vi) the (severe) externalites that are caused by policing the problem of incentives, economic calculation, skill atrophy, corruption, and black markets. Unfortunately, Soviets (Russians) did not know how to transition out of a military economy. Observing the consequences, the Chinese copied the americans instead of the Russians and used debt and cheap labor to indusrialize at the rest of the world’s expense just as america did to europe in the 1800’s.
(e) **Consequences**: The russians have escapted the degredation of culture since the 1960’s brought about by the ewish postwar migration of insurgency from germany to america, and the conversion of the marxist program to the neo-marxist, postmodernist, anti-male feminist program (culminating in the 2020 attempt to repeat the Bolshevik revolution here in america using BLM/Antifa).
The west may not survive the next few decades. Russia will – and she will very likely pick up the pieces ‘for cheap’.
In retrospect, the Fascists created a corporate state, as defense against communists that created a military state. The British and Americans failed to grasp the seriousness of the threat of communism, as a repeat of the christian destructino of rome, and the muslim destruction of the ancient world. The Chinese are not christian and not idealistic: they have adopted fascism: intolerant, ethnocentric, state corporatism, and total war. But they have used credit (the anglo invention of scale finance) to achieve what the Soviets failed to, and in doing so demonstrated that the fascists were not unique, they were simply practicing the norm in history. And chinese in doing so have restored history to it’s regular state now that the european age of optimism is ended.
Source date (UTC): 2020-09-22 19:40:00 UTC