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[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

an unplanned economy

a dictatorship

These ideas are not in nearly as much tension as you think. California is a bourgeois dictatorship (like all other capitalist nations), and the bourgeoisie require the government to forgo centrally planning the economy in order to maximize their exploitation of the people (and therefore profit margins).