Planned Economy and Communism

Was a planned economy a part of Marxist thought before the advent of the Soviet Union? Did anyone discuss the flaws of a planned economy during the time of Marx and Engles? If so, what was their response to that criticism?
 
Honestly, Communism101 on Reddit's a better place for this, or Socialism101. Avoid the tankies. This, shockingly, isn't really a Marxist site.
 
Was a planned economy a part of Marxist thought before the advent of the Soviet Union? Did anyone discuss the flaws of a planned economy during the time of Marx and Engles? If so, what was their response to that criticism?

South Korea had been planned economy under a military dictatorship before becoming a market democracy. South Vietnam also, I guess.
 
With Marx and Engels, no. The paradigm was always "the working class takes control of the means of production", not "the state plans the economy".
Lenin, on the other hand, has written a short explanation about how socialism would resemble the Mail Office, if I remember correctly, and that was, again if my memory does not betray me, years before the October Revolution.
 
You could do a timeline about Marx going on lengthily about planning the economy, though - it would be interesting to see how middle / late 19th century thinkers would respond to such a theoretical proposal.
 
Was a planned economy a part of Marxist thought before the advent of the Soviet Union? Did anyone discuss the flaws of a planned economy during the time of Marx and Engles? If so, what was their response to that criticism?
No that idea was developed in USSR, neither Marx nor Engles supported a planned economy.
 
Also, I would say that I spend time on PolChat now, and, equally importantly:

DO NOT GO TO COMMUNISM_101 or SOCIALISM_101.


They are all tankies. Go to Marxism_101.
 
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