Plan to learn a little about history

I caught some numb nut talking head on one of the morning cable news shows going on about the beauty of Chinese central planning. He seemed to have no idea that the Soviet Union "central planned" itself right our of existence. Central planning on that scale by the government does not work. History has shown this repeatedly. When numb nuts was told by a co-panelist that central planning had deep communist roots, he just grinned and moved on to the next subject.