## Metadata - Author: [[Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass]] - Full Title: Half-Earth Socialism - Category: #books ## Highlights - Conscious control is a planned economy’s greatest strength, but it requires democracy to prevent authoritarian and inefficient control over the production and distribution of goods. In this way, we could say that linear programming remained a doomed demi-utopian proposal as long as it was not integrated within a broader political project. ([Location 1608](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08L5VD33V&location=1608)) - As Kantorovich understood it, the goal is not to micromanage every kilogram of coffee or piece of steel rebar around the globe, but to ‘construct a system of information, accounting, economic indices, and stimuli which permit local decision-making organs to evaluate the advantage of their decisions from the point of view of the whole economy’.28 ([Location 1613](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08L5VD33V&location=1613)) - the goal of socialism is to allow humanity to consciously regulate itself and its interchange with nature. ([Location 1701](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08L5VD33V&location=1701)) - Neurath argued that plans based on labour time are as pseudorational as capitalist profit, in that both are based on a universal equivalent that obscured more than it clarified. ([Location 1702](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08L5VD33V&location=1702))