[X] Plan: Mostly Orthodox
-[X] Top-down approach
-[X] A cooperative proposal
-[X] Good-old fashioned NEP
-[X] The Simple Option
Cybernetics? In 1962? In Soviet China?
Revisionists. Defeatists. Wreckers.
The idea is the very definition of insanity. Comrade Bukharin has proven the efficiency of Marxist-Leninism with the economic development of the Soviet Union. He oversaw the transformation of the backwater of Europe into an industrial juggernaut that rivals the United States. The process of achieving communism has been laid before us and it is not currently found in complex cybernetic systems. This is deciding the fate of the state industry. The literal backbone of our economy and society.
Okay real talk, the fact that it's the Militarists pushing for such a system is further reason not to pursue it. It explicitly empowers them and they only want to apply it to military industries. The literal last thing we want is the military dictating economic policy to the party. That's what Brezhnev did and it resulted in like civilian eye ware factories having to be made with the ability to switch over to producing military optic lenses at a moment's notice. The military got first dibs on all computer systems. They will fucking hog all the cybernetic experts for themselves and strangle our economy if we don't meet their demands if we go down the cybernetic path. Let's not let the militarists get buddy-buddy with a cadre of technocrats and bureaucrats that allow them to sideline existing party-state structures when making economic decisions.
The workers are already represented by the Communist Party of China. The unions are party organizations. If we empower them we simply invite factionalism into the party by creating tension between state planners, union leaders, and party bureaucrats. If workers are discontented at their jobs they may file a complaint with their local party leader or failing that, join a cooperative. If we want better feedback on inefficiencies then the solution is continuing our current process of streamlining the administration, increasing funding for state industries and ministries, and continuing to train competent workers and bureaucrats.
The cooperative model is the only acceptable 'deviation' from existing orthodoxy because it is in fact a development of Bukharinist model by ensuing private enterprises are run by worker cooperatives. The elimination of small businesses will prevent the emergence of a capitalist class. Plus it's not like the Soviets allow large corporations to form. It's just a bunch of self employed businesses, family run shops, businesses with like ten to twenty employees, and worker cooperatives. While it is state capitalism it's under a Marxist-Leninist regime. Those people running their own shops are waking up everyday thanking Lenin and Bukharin allowing them to literally own the means of production.
