Nope. Soviet Union, pre-Deng Communist China, Nehru's India, Pre Doi Moi Vietnamese communism, Nyere's Tanzania ... all calamitous failures. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
Nehru didn't have a command economy, for one, two, it is an empirical fact that the soviet union did industrialize, as did most of the eastern european countries.
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha
They built a lot of economically dysfunctional industrial capacity. It's like fast-tracking a rust-belt.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Up until the productivity collapse in the 80s, it did deliver the goods, maybe not as high quality as the west, but it was indeed an industrial society.
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China's command economy industrial star zones are now its basket cases. It was the Marxist version of cargo cultism. ...
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Is it possible to have civilization without some sort of sink for excess biodetritus? Historically, what has been the most successful form of sink for minimizing friction?
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Replying to @EvolutionistXX @The_WGD and
Back of the envelope calculation of % of sailors who died trying to get nutmeg from Indonesia to Britain a couple hundred years ago: 75%
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Replying to @EvolutionistXX @Outsideness and
I'm thinking more along the lines of engineering solutions. How to get a Renaissance instead of a gulag?
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Replying to @The_WGD @EvolutionistXX and
Hamilton wondered if a periodic injection of self-sacrificial daring into mercantile civilization via barbarian invasion wasn’t necessary for renaissances.
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It’s worth thinking how to simulate that without the intervening dark age
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