> it's a problem of realisation, but not of the whole idea of planned economy. > huge companies like coka-cola are planned inside, and manage to work, that's exactly my point. planning requires knowledge of how the system works and top down control to ensure no funny business happens on corporate/state property. yet cpsu had too little of both to turn their monolithic, monopolistic control into anything more than predatory exploitation. moscow and st.petersburg/leningrad acting as metropole and everything outside getting colonial treatment.  > companies have "prestige" too, own burocracy apparatus, scapegoats etc. but they function. the difference is, companies have a power above them, forcing them to compete and function under strict rules and they have competition from their peers, also enforced from above. companies have no other way to survive, but to make money off selling goods and services. single party state has neither. it answers to noone, it has no internal competition and it can make up any laws it wants. it can simply take all the money and resources it wants. and when that doesn't work, then it just uses violence, on which it holds monopoly.
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