[TalBlack]

"As long as there were plenty of resources, the Soviet economy could continue running."

Objective? Not even kinda'.

The above quote is pure ignorance, stupidity or evil. Take your pick.

Controlling an economy destroys incentive to produce. Always has always will.

This is just the frustrated maundering of another rabid Reagan right hater

[wotan]

"As long as there were plenty of resources, the Soviet economy could continue running."

The above quote is pure ignorance, stupidity or evil. Take your pick.

The quote may not be obviously true, but it is certainly not obviously false. Command economies (or whatever you want to call them) can function for a long time if they have plenty of resources. The Soviet Union lasted for 70 years. The ancient Egyptian empire was basically a command economy and lasted a very long time. Much the same could be said of the Chinese and Incan empires.