palebluethought@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why did communism always turn into a kind of dictatorship?English
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1 month agoLots of reasons, but here’s one:
Because one of, if not the main purpose of money is to provide a decentralized way of transferring information about economic needs and capabilities. Without that mechanism in place, the only way of determining where goods can be created and where they need to go (a massive problem that it is a daily miracle we don’t generally have to deal with) is by an overbearing authoritarian state.
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