True, but: communism doesn't remove the price system from the market in order to achieve some noble goals (on paper) like education and welfare for all. It does it as a step in its gradual attempt to control the society: first take away the political rights by declaring all other parties illegal, then abandon the free market economy in favor of a centralized planning system, collectivize the agriculture and then move on to the personal sphere and enslave the individual mind.
What is less known is that the ex-communist countries had a parallel economy, with companies owned by the state that were very capitalist in their bearing and were trading with the west on hard currency. They needed this in order to avoid collapse; the central planning system wasn't doing much good...
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Date: 2004-09-30 10:33 am (UTC)What is less known is that the ex-communist countries had a parallel economy, with companies owned by the state that were very capitalist in their bearing and were trading with the west on hard currency. They needed this in order to avoid collapse; the central planning system wasn't doing much good...