Spiciest take I actually believe: Mao's Great Leap Forward was basically correct, it just didn't have the requisite technological base required for viable village scale manufacturing. The technologies required to build a distributed manufacturing base are still maturing.
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I'm thinking more village scale than household scale, with the simplest products being farm machinery (eg small tractor units), open source ecology is the closest I've seen in the west. Cnc plasma tables and routers are gong to enable a lot of this imhohttps://www.opensourceecology.org/
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In China, I'd gesture vaguely in the direction of this as the kind of modular open source ecosystem as the thing we want more ofhttps://hackaday.com/2019/10/06/a-modular-ecosystem-that-evolved-around-a-simple-diesel-engine/ …
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