Cybersyn 2.0 in the USSR

[MrPointForward]

.Good day to all. I'm from the Philippines, and I'm new here. I've been an 'unofficial observer' here in Revleft, reading forums and stuff for 3 months now (not a member back then). So far, I'm impressed with the various perspectives of members here.

I'd like to explore the possibility of the USSR incorporating Beer's technology (applied in Allende's Chile) to their command economic structure. I've read somewhere that it may have been the most potent solution to the economic calculation question (but then, some conservatives quickly dismissed it as bulls*** and what not). I've also learned about its successful practical capability (e.g. the use of telex to break up a truck driver strike, allegedly induced by the CIA, to solve the shortages brought by it).

Questions: Were the Soviets willing to apply it? If they are, and they did, will it reduce the economic constraints (i.e. surpluses and shortages) commonly exhibited by planned economies? What would be its implications on the Cold War (e.g. would it have prevented the collapse of the Eastern Bloc? would it have eliminated the need to institutionalize perestroika? would it have given the USSR an upper hand?)

I'd be pleased to know your insights.

[Zealot]

For various reasons, the USSR still would have collapsed with or without the most efficient machine to conduct economic planning. But there's no point in getting into that here because the reasons for the collapse of the USSR is a complicated question that would require a thread of its own (although I'm sure there are a million of them on here already).

[JPSartre12]

I agree with you, comrade. There are numerous threads and theories as to why the Soviet Union did not last. I will not derail this thread by putting forth my own ideas on this.

But I do agree with the OP - bringing technology into the economic planning model is surely a way to help make it more effective. If you have a planned economy that is done centrally (from the state's capitol, for example) it's not going to be as intimiate and personable as one that is de-centralized (local). A de-centralized model that is coupled with technology would be most effective to avoid crises of overproduction, wasteful surpluses, shortages, poor allocation, etc.