Project Cybersyn: Chile's Radical Experiment in Cybernetic Socialism (excerpt from Cybernetic Revolutionaries)
Eden Medina — Project Cybersyn: Chile's Radical Experiment in Cybernetic Socialism (excerpt from Cybernetic Revolutionaries) (2023)Eden Medina · 2023 · Web page · Discussion of the limits of the system against inflation, credit shortages, hoarding and violenceTheorySource attached · not independently reviewedCLM-0170 · as of 2026-10-23 · about: Project Cybersyn (Chile) · Author: Polity Atlas editorial team
“Cybersyn could not have addressed runaway inflation, lack of foreign credit, falling copper prices, hoarding or the threat of violence, and in practice its factory modelling was top down; accounts presenting it as a functioning ‘cybernetic socialism’ overstate what was built.”
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2The Planning Machine
Evgeny Morozov — The Planning Machine (2014)Evgeny Morozov · 2014 · Article · Engineer's description of the modelling as ‘fairly technocratic’ and ‘top down’Evidence that contradicts
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