Why Communism Failed Becker Jasper
Why Communism Failed Becker Jasper Communism was destroyed not from without, but from within-by a persistent failure to make its economic theories work in practice. Until the last moment, top western…
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Why Communism Failed Becker Jasper
Communism was destroyed not from without, but from within-by a persistent failure to make its economic theories work in practice. Until the last moment, top western economists claimed that Communism was superior to western models. But what exactly did go wrong with its central planning?
Both sides believed that East Germany had a stronger economy than West Germany; that North Korea would overtake South Korea; that Mao's China was a paradise for its starving peasants. Even now, centralized Marxist planning retains its admirers, especially among the young.With the benefit of new archival research, we can finally grasp how falsified and manipulated statistics blindfolded Communist governments and confused western leaders, leading to staggering errors of judgement. Those who warned that a dearth of reliable economic data would condemn central planning to irrational misallocation of