• masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    why not use the term central planning directly in the title rather than defining socialism in an arbitrary way?

    Maybe because even that wouldn’t say all that much - all economies are centrally planned at a national level - even the ones peddling “free market” mythology in an attempt to prove they aren’t. The US Military-Industrial Complex is no less a product of central planning than Cuba’s healthcare system is.

    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      If socialist means centrally planned economy, and all countries are centrally planned, then all countries are socialist.

      World revolution achieved! We did it, lemmy.

      Edit: Jokes aside, I don’t quite get why you two are arguing. You seem to more or less agree that the study doesn’t actually discuss socialist countries.