During the second world war, two thirds of German anti friction bearing industry (mostly ball and roller bearing) were located in Schweinfurt-am-Main. Now, you might think that German stuka fliegers, or sturmgewhers or whatever were the reason Germans managed anything in the war. But reality is, without the ball bearings, German motorized 'mile a minute' rifle-grenadier attacks, mechanized 'schwerpunkt' swarms for breaking through,
and 'blitzkrieg' mass double pincer encirclements would not be possible.
Around four thousand of these bearings would go into the average bomber, two thousands of them into a fighter, just a thousand in the controls of a junker 88, propeller shafts, submarines, locomotives, other machines… none would be possible without the ball bearings.
So during the war, for the first time in the history of industrial war, allied-soviet military organized something called "strategic bombing" on Tuesday, August 17, 1943. Distance from home base was ~500 miles, altitude 2500, speeds more than 2.50 and 414 tons of bombs dropped. And then on October 14th, 573 tons of bombs dropped. 122 German fighters were downed, 60 bombers lost on allied side, 593 men died.
Because of that, German luftwaffe (airforce) couldnt reach Soviet war factories behind the Stalin line during Barbarossa, couldnt maintain air combat patrols over English channel, couldnt maintain air superiority over eastern theater, couldnt produce artillery shells, or tanks, or small arms, or vehicles, or machines that make other machines.
German lines simply melted away and two years later Germany collapsed.
A small group of German, French and British scientists, industrialists and businessmen, and one German Jew who escaped forced labor in a camouflaged factory in the forest of Schweinfurt, they secretly compiled a technical report and gave it to the Royal Air Force and USAF high command. They were properly paid after the war.
My question here is: how do the communists calculate and decide just exactly how much farms or factories or ice creams was this information, or any information for that matter, worth? What does labor theory of value does with information? Market economy knew exactly how much to pay for the above scenario.
I personally dont care about politics all that much, I prefer to read about economy and think economy is what matters to me. So I'd put a red star or a swastika or whatever on my forehead, as long as I benefit from it. I just dont know how do you do economic transactions with the communists? How does work works? What if I have a better idea, do I get rewarded for it? Market economy and free trade answer all these things instantly, its all just supply and demand. But how do you do business with the communists?