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Cybersyn: A futuristic plan for creating a plan socialist economy
MATT WIDDOWSON writes on Salvador Allende's network of telephone lines, mainframe computers and control centres aimed at allowing greater workplace democracy
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A STRANGE footnote to the story of the Chilean experience of socialism is that of an ambitious project named Cybersyn.
Until the 1973 coup the government of Salvador Allende invested in an IT system which aimed to monitor, analyse and plan the national economy — ambitious indeed!
Cybersyn was a network of telephone lines, mainframe computers and futuristic-looking control centres built with the aim of creating a democratically planned socialist economy, including a degree of direct workers’ control at a local level.
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