#cybersyn

Victor Glushkov (1923-82) the man who attempted to implement anti-bureaucratic Socialist Planning in the Soviet Union through economic cybernetics but was tragically blocked by the in reality anti-communist ruling bureaucratic elite.

See,‘Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network’ by Slava Gerovitch (2008)

Also on economic cybernetics and Socialist Planning see:

Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell (1993)

Project Cybersyn

And for more general argumentation for Socialist Planning see:

In Defence of Socialist Planning by Ernest Mandel (1986)