> is a classical Marxist argument.

This is absolutely hilarious considering why communist countries fall. Because planned economies are too inflexible to adapt to rapidly changing environments. Communists love metrics. They love bureaucracy. They love management. They love simplicity. To boil things down into bit size components that are easily digestible.

You have things exactly backwards. I am preaching to embrace chaos, not order. It is the claim that big brother not only doesn't know best, but that no brother can. That truth has a lower bound to complexity but deciept has the capacity to be infinitely simple. That is why so many can fool us, because we abhor complexity. Even the most complex conspiracy theories boil down to nothing distinguishable from "wizards did it." They replace all knowing gods with all knowing men, because in the end it is better than evil rule than chaos. Because at least when evil rule there is order, there is someone in charge. My claim is that there is no one in charge and everyone is just as lost as you, pretending to know their way.

If you read Marx and Engels you will find that they absolutely love meritocracy. Something I'm literally calling a pipe dream and unobtainable. Something I'm claiming that pursuing leads you in the opposite direction of intent. You requested micromanagement, and to the extreme. I cannot see how you disagree with those who's most fundamental belief is "from each according to his ability." To be all that you can be, or be a failure to the state. The people who want to so intemently know you're life. Communist Russia, China, and North Korea are not known for their freedom and chaos. They are known for heavy handed authoritarians who want to micromanage, to subjugate, because they know best.

Talk about calling the kettle black. You impose a position on academics because it is one you want to believe but not one you've cared to validate. To see the stark divide between those in the humanities and those in stem. I have actually read the "Communist Manifesto" and other works like Stalin's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism"[0]. You know why I don't believe them and do not preach their words? Because unlike many of those who believe as well as those who hate, I actually read them before I made up my mind. I know their claims not because others have told me what they say but because I heard it from the horse's mouth. Maybe you should too.

And before you talk about Smith's Invisible Hand, maybe you should read "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Wealth of Nations." Maybe you should also read the work of his best friend.

You are so quick to call out others for being "sheeple" yet you demonstrate that you have not read the source materials. Are you afraid? If they convert you then clearly your beliefs were not strong. But if they are wrong then you can actual counter the arguments being made rather than strawmen which may not even exist. I'll tell you from personal experience, nothing has turned me off communism more then the Communist Manifesto itself. You speak of merit, but how can you claim it if you do not read the source material. If you do not give it a true fair shot, a good faith read. There's is no magic spells and reading shit will not cause you to believe shit.

You've shown all throughout this that that you have an abundance of confidence but a dearth of expertise. You have had ample opportunities to explain your arguments, to act in good faith, but at every turn you say no more than "trust me." Even the Russians followed that with "but verify" (and Reagan popularized in the west). I'm not willing to trust those who do not provide the means to verify. Nor do I trust those who do not care to respond to arguments being made. You have a lot more in common with Stalin than you may like to believe, for you too -- like in [0] -- happily create not just strawmen, but conjure arguments never made so that you can easily topple them.

You peach answers while I peach uncertainty. How dare you compare me to men who seek to be gods.

[0] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938...