he doesn't draw you a map, but he does say "the economies get integrated into a single plan", and you know how his plan works from previous chapters, having a single plan kinda means that enterprises compete across nations instead of within a nation, the best enterprises grow, and the worst go broke, one plan kinda also means that your enterprises supply goods across borders, so yeah voting in this system for 30% of country labour invested in lets say military just means that your country get the equivalent of 30% of its country labour in military equipment, regardless of where those goods are produced, as the military factories are probably just going to be located in the country that's best at producing tanks and airplanes and else, same with steel, if your demand for it is 500 tons, then you'll get 500 tons from the cheapest steel producing country
The Socialist World Republic
So he doesn't directly describe it then. But what happens if the best option, such as if a new country joins, is to put all of the "grow MOP budget" disproportionately into a single or a group of countries. An internal budget implies that any budget is for internal spending, while it may be much better to industrialize a nation with tons of mineral wealth and no industry over trying to squeeze a bit more efficiency out of the factory in an industrialized place. The growing of industry is still part of the one single plan, so the nation internal-budget would only be limited to things like "we value this or that service more" or "we want to work less or more".
descentralization will always be an incentive in this system, and that is because of the transport costs, these costs just make it so local industries have an advantage over international ones, this makes it so that local products will be used when posible, the only advantage international products will have in the long run will be enviromental, so that for example producing coffee in south america will always be cheaper than producing it in europe, so europe will most likely consume south american coffee, any other kind of advantage of one country over another should be smoothed out, for example if germany produces more steel because they have better administrative practices then those practices should be taught to everyone
Makes sense, but the freedom of allocation of labour would be somewhat restricted obviously by the things i mentioned before.
Wouldn't this single plan still need a central place to calculate everything?
Really makes me think about if we can fully decentralize the planning system or if this is even desirable.
Decentralization is desirable because it’s easier to implement direct Democracy. Also forcing shit on people leads to conflict.
There is one big downside I can see though. A country could benefit from the rapid industrialization provided by the one plan economy and then leave the union.
i guess you could always make them dependant on the union enough so that they won't exit it, make a nato like thing on top of that so that their security is dependant on the union, and generally improve the quality of life so that staying is better, or you know you could always pull a 1956 on them
yeah you're just full out retarded
uninronically im hoping china somehow uncucks itself and begins to spread socialism to other countries
China is socialist though. According to there own deffiniton.