Socialism

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Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.

Karl Marx Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League London, March 1850

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Basically, the assumption is that PPP-adjusted GDP per capita (B) is a reliable measure of the economic activity in a country, while its ability to satisfy the needs of its population is better quantified by the PPP-adjusted median wealth per adult (D).

Wikipedia provides B, as well as unadjusted GDP per capita (A) and unadjusted median wealth per adult ( C), so it's a reasonable assumption that D = BC/A. Since B represents production, C/A is a coefficient indicating how well this production translates to better quality of life.

So, my question is, for an arbitrary D, how much do each of both factors contribute to it? We need to find x so (Bx)(Cx/A) = BCx²/A = 1, so, since 1 = D/D = BC/AD, we find that x = 1/sqrt(D).

Then the normalized production factor is Bx = B/sqrt(D) = B/sqrt(BC/A) = sqrt(AB/C). Since this factor follows a logarithmic distribution, is only makes sense to take the logarithm, for p = log10(sqrt(AB/C)) = 2log10(AB/C). I just omitted the constant factor for simplicity.

It's far from perfect, as it tends to put together countries with lower GDP per capita and countries with fairer distribution, since both rely less on a high production.

Read the text here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/a7hthyixn9f9xumr

The author makes some very good arguments regarding fact checking websites and media in general (even if his views on vaccinations may be questionable). He also clearly doesnt know Marxism, but if you replace the "International Cabal of Gangsters" with the bourgeoisie, it is surprisingly accurate.

Here's their press release a couple days ago announcing that success.

Just sharing for discussion purposes. Some lefty programmers are creating a buzzword laden system for distributed socialist economic planning.

There's a lot about the exact approach they take that strikes me as reformist and non revolutionary, but at the same time, I think there needs to be a greater emphasis on leveraging cybernetics to advance socialist planning.

Like the forms of planning developed in the USSR and PRC were developed before computers even existed and at least in the USSR they never really updated it. From what I've read the lack of computational power in the planning apparatus wound up being something of a bottleneck for the economy, not to say a fatal one, but you know, something future socialist projects would want to figure out how to address. I'm not too familiar with how economic planning in China works these days so no comment there.

Anyways, just thought it was interesting even if the ideological framework of the Basis Project is a bit odd. But I do wonder what modern computer science might enable in the way of economic planning.

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