[D66] The Contradictions of Real Socialism, Computopia

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/03/the-contradictions-of-real-socialism/

OCTOBER 03, 2012

Michael Lebowitz on the Human Being Under Socialism
The Contradictions of Real Socialism
by LOUIS PROYECT

Several months ago the Crooked Timber blog held a seminar on Francis 
Spufford’s “Red Plenty”, a novel that was widely embraced as a kind of 
postmortem on the USSR. The title refers to the apparently foolish 
beliefs of Soviet leaders, scientists and economists in the 1950s and 
60s that “plenty”—in other words, consumer goods—could be achieved 
through central planning based on advanced computing technology.