US wartime capitalism was run on Soviet-style central planning

Evidence

And there’s the irony. 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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The political scope of these upheavals was terrifying. Paradoxically, to promote capital accumulation, the state intervened with maneuvers so extraordinary that they overturned the social consensus on which the system rested: the idea that it was a spontaneous, untouchable, and natural order. At that critical juncture, the state opened economic analysis to political discussion. Policies cementing private ownership of the means of production and wage relations were now debatable. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169 (#expands, via linked claim)

But these massive wartime interventions exposed an inconvenient fact. Economic forces never operate independently of society’s political dynamics. If the state could mold the economy to serve the needs of war, in peacetime it could mold it to promote the well-being of those whose sweat, muscles, and brains are the basis of national prosperity. The war had demonstrated “the profoundly political nature of the capitalist economy.” — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 29 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Even free-marketeers accepted central planning for nuclear defense — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 285; American capitalism secretly adopted Soviet centralized planning principles in the 1960s. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 158; US post-war grand strategy followed an open-door economics-and-control playbook (+18 more)

Related

• US wartime production ran on Soviet-style central planning under private ownership (similarity 0.89)
• American capitalism secretly adopted Soviet centralized planning principles in the 1960s. (similarity 0.88)
• America quietly enacted central planning ideals while denouncing the Soviet Union’s (similarity 0.86)
• Even free-marketeers accepted central planning for nuclear defense (similarity 0.81)
• Wartime state control proved economies are politically moldable (similarity 0.79)
• Postcolonial states choosing Soviet-style planning threatened the emerging neoliberal vision. (similarity 0.79)
• Cold War rivalry led US agencies to fund state-led socialist-style development abroad. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• American capitalism secretly adopted Soviet centralized planning principles in the 1960s. #corroborates (0.95) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 158
• State wartime intervention exposed the natural order of capitalism as a political choice #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169
• Wartime state control proved economies are politically moldable #expands (0.85) — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 29
• Cold War-era US ideological identity required an uncomfortable middle position #expands (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 671
• Cold War threat produced unprecedented internal cohesion in capitalist societies #expands (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 160
• US post-war grand strategy followed an open-door economics-and-control playbook #complicates (0.75)
• The Soviet Union studied applying American Taylorism under socialist production relations. #complicates (0.75)
• Postcolonial states choosing Soviet-style planning threatened the emerging neoliberal vision. #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1263
• US Cold War anti-communism reshaped the drafting of social and economic rights #complicates (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 190
• World War II scattered early neoliberal organizers and recast their enemy as socialist planning #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 111
• US postwar imperialism was framed as benevolent supremacy via free-market capitalism #complicates (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 245
• US financial-military hegemony structured the postwar Fordist world economy #complicates (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 825
• The Institute viewed the Soviet economy as a variant of state capitalism #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 483
• Soviet military spending enabled Third World revolutions while strangling Soviet society #complicates (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 618
• Cold War rivalry led US agencies to fund state-led socialist-style development abroad. #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1294