Mişcarea de centralizare a anilor 1930
Henry C.K. Liu, analist independent din Asia, publică pe site-ul său o serie de articole sub titlul "The Socialist Revolution Started 90 Years Ago in China". Câteva paragrafe interesante mi-au atras atenţia deoarece nu m-am gândit până acum să privesc sistemele economice folosite de către S.U.A., Germania şi U.R.S.S. (principalii actori ai celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial) în anii '30 ai secolului trecut ca fiind foarte similare în anumite privinţe:
Starting from 1928, the Soviet economy was put under a system of central planning whereby all modes of production were socialized and foreign trade de-emphasized in favor of a largely autarkic system of domestic demand and supply. The success of the autarkic approach in the USSR induced the Third Reich to adopt it in 1933 for Germany.
The irony was that both Soviet and Nazi central planning adopted much of the effective techniques of successful US experience in corporate planning in the era of big trusts. By 1904, 318 trusts controlled about two-fifths of US manufacturing output, not counting powerful trusts in non-manufacturing sectors such as railroads, local transit, and banking [...]