America quietly enacted central planning ideals while denouncing the Soviet Union’s
Evidence
In the 1960s, a decade marked by an ideological and nuclear clash between America and the Soviet Union that almost blew up the world, Soviet planning principles were implemented with remarkable success in … the United States. Irony has seldom taken a more effective revenge over earnest ideology. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 158
Categorization
- CANDY: A tidy ironic fact — the US implemented Soviet-style planning principles at the height of the Cold War — works as light conversational material.
- SEED: Angle: the recurring ‘free market’ powers quietly practice the central planning they crusade against — from the 1960s technostructure to command-and-control wartime mobilization to modern platform algorithms.
- XREF: connects to: US wartime capitalism was run on Soviet-style central planning; American capitalism secretly adopted Soviet centralized planning principles in the 1960s. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 158; US wartime production ran on Soviet-style central planning under private ownership — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 140 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- US wartime production ran on Soviet-style central planning under private ownership
#corroborates(0.95) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 140 - US wartime capitalism was run on Soviet-style central planning
#corroborates(0.92) - American capitalism secretly adopted Soviet centralized planning principles in the 1960s.
#expands(0.80) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 158 - Cold War American identity was built on performed hatred of the Soviet Union.
#expands(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 220