Regarding Yeltsin. He didn't do anything wrong, he did exactly what his masters wanted.
Ah yes the age old liberal/1 percenter conspiracy theory. Seen that being pull out the rabbit's hat a million time, along side the lizard man are running Wall Street and the Nazis are on the dark side of the moon. That is some fine stuff you are smoking there.
So why do you oppose introducing markets into family setting? Markets are suppose to be efficient and resource allocation. I'll tell you why. Because a family setting is not about maximizing profit, it is about producing use-values for the family members to the mutual benefit of the whole family. The profit driven market economy is not necessary for producing the goods and services we need. Or perhaps you mean that markets are good in the corporate setting only. If that's the case let me remind you that corporations are not the entirety of society.
I oppose that because not only what you are asking is a loaded question which is intellectually dishonest, but also that a family setting consist of a wholly seperate entity of that from the corporate society. And did I every posted anywhere in earlier that I claim that corporate form the entirety of society ? Stop trying to put words where it does not exist. I have make it plaint from the start that corporate and family are 2 separate entities. To say that people are not profit driven is to be ignorant to the extreme of the basic human nature of desire and greed. No one on this world will work for free for the benefit of others, that is a socialist wet dream that will never come true. Not everyone is a friend to another or a family member, that is the biggest flaw of your argument.
Are they really though? Scientific advancement and improving labor productivity are the keys. A market economy is not necessary for either of those. Look at the great scientists of the past, if they weren't aristocrats they were working for state institutions. Either way the majority did not pursue their research for profit, some even threw their own wealth into funding their research. What private enterprise does is take the scientific knowledge from the public sector and encloses it behind the wall of property rights. It is rent-seeking behavior that benefits the property owners at the expense of every one else. Private finance is the same parasite only larger. Finally it's trivially easy to understand that everyone wants to find ways to work less, boosting productivity is a natural behavior of anything with a functioning brain.
If we look into the feudal state, we can see that during the medieval times. Scientific progress moved along at a snails pace, precisely because people who had the vision lacks the necessary funds and resources to pursue it. On the side of arts, wealthy patrons and institutions often commission grand works from artists like Michelangelo who sold their expertise for a living. If anyone anywhere is free to make use of the ideas that people put much time and effort into conceiving there will be no drive for people to actually innovate in the first place.Why would I bother to invent something new if others can just leach off it for free ?You clearly have much to learn of the private sector beyond that of die hard extremists like Marx and Lenin. Boosting productive is only possible if people are driven to do so.
Why are capitalists using institutions designed to help capital? Because it is in their self interest to do so, but not everyone in China is part of the capitalist class in fact the majority are not.
Considering how China is currently boasting both the largest and fastest growing middle class I did say you are outta your mind. And you still don't get the point, people uses such systems to enrich themselves and their immediate circle, which in turn will future enrich others in contact with them.
Considering they have been economically blockaded and have far smaller labour pool and resources at hand, yes, their accomplishments are no less miraculous than China's, and I don't mean in the past but in the recent decades.
DPRK may be excused for this, but Cuba is not the kind of island nation under siege as you might think it to be. It trades extensively with even close US allies like Canada and Italy, yet it is still dirt poor.
Yes they can, the centrally planned logistics systems of amazon and walmart can predict what customers will buy and ship them to closer warehouses. We nationalize those systems and can transform the USA into USSA overnight. There's nothing preventing the use of machine learning for state economic planning, as I said before, the computing power is there and the algorithms are very much tractable. Same thing applies to China's internet infrastructure. Nothing is more satisfying than killing your enemy with his own weapons.
Nice to see you conveniently left out the fact that Amazon and Walmart are shopping giants who deals solely with matters of delivery and marketing. Now try and envision that on a national scale covering everything from basic production, manufacturing, labour costs and so on. Predicting what a customer will buy is not the same as predicting how much they will buy. Lets get that straight from the start, no amount of algorithms can predict the basic human nature of desire or non factor able issues like how many of my friends might be coming over for dinner tonight.
No one is free of ideology. You are simply repeating the same tired liberal propaganda regarding the necessity of free markets and the faults of the USSR and other Marxist-Leninist states. I don't blame you since that's what the western education system teaches, at least I hope you learned this from the west and not from the Chinese education system. That would be even sadder. The problems with the liberal ideology is that it does not describe reality, it benefits the status quo which means the existing imperialist power and it ultimately undermines it's own positive aspects (human rights, democracy) to protect its economic system, capitalism.
And apparently you are shackled to it by one chain too many. Before you started ranting off in a high and mighty tone about how my education was taught to me, let me REMIND you that you are also repeating the same tired communist/propaganda that attempts to control and micromanage the impossible, basic human greed and desire. And failing miserably at that. Socialism and Communism is even more detached from reality as it assumes humans are basically automatons with no personality, hopes and dreams. And it attempts to model them into so with disastrous results.
Here is a hint, drop that copy of Das Kapital that you are holding and try to go out into the world and get people to do something for you for free because it is "for the good of society". You may get a rather rude awakening.
. Don't give up, Trump! I wanna see how this ends for you when China, EU, Canada, and Mexico (and North Korea LOL) all tell you to pound sand, not that China needed any help as things are.
