[beckman466]

> The major Achilles heel of communism is its central planning.

> The efforts that were undertaken to replace the price signal were also truly monumental, armies of bureaucrats collecting information on every detail of consumption and then trying project needs across an entire society. It's a herculean task even by today's standards of information processing.

No it's very much possible today. An exciting project I follow closely: http://valueflo.ws