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Red Algorithms: Solving the Calculation Problem in the Digital Age
Paperback
General ComputersGeneral Political Science
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 3 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Can socialism work in the 21st century? This book proves it can-and shows exactly how.
For over a century, the calculation problem has been capitalism's knockout argument against socialism: without market prices, how could any economy coordinate millions of products, billions of preferences, and complex supply chains? Even well-intentioned socialist planning would collapse into chaos and shortage.
But that argument was based on 20th-century technology. Everything has changed.
Red Algorithms demonstrates how modern computing power, real-time data, machine learning, and digital democracy platforms make democratic economic planning not only possible but practical in ways that seemed like fantasy fifty years ago. The technological barriers that made central planning impossible have been demolished. The calculation problem is solvable.
What You'll Discover:- Why the calculation problem seemed insurmountable-and what Mises and Hayek actually argued that made their critique so convincing
- What the Soviet experience really proved about planning's possibilities and failures
- How exponential growth in computing power has fundamentally transformed what's possible for economic coordination
- Why markets fail catastrophically at exactly the problems they claim to solve-from climate change to inequality
- How democratic planning would actually work in practice-from housing and healthcare to innovation and environmental sustainability
- The real risks and challenges-surveillance, technocracy, transition obstacles-and how to address them
- What we're really trying to achieve: not just efficiency, but human flourishing, democratic control, and ecological sustainability
- You believe capitalism is failing but wonder if alternatives are possible
- You're intrigued by socialism but skeptical about whether planning can work
- You work in tech and want to use your skills for something better than surveillance capitalism
- You're tired of being told there is no alternative when you know something's deeply wrong
- You want rigorous analysis, not just slogans-this book takes the strongest arguments against planning seriously and responds with evidence and analysis
Unlike utopian manifestos or abstract theory, Red Algorithms provides concrete, technically informed analysis of how democratic planning could coordinate housing construction, healthcare delivery, food systems, renewable energy transitions, and innovation-all while maintaining genuine democracy and addressing climate change.
This isn't nostalgia for Soviet-style planning. This is a 21st-century vision that learns from historical failures, embraces modern technology, and insists that democracy is non-negotiable. The tools exist. The question is whether we have the political will to use them.
The Choice Ahead:Artificial intelligence and algorithmic coordination are being developed right now. The question isn't whether we'll use these tools-it's who will control them and what they'll serve.
Under capitalism, AI means surveillance, displacement, and concentrated power. Under democratic socialism, it could mean coordination for human needs, reduced work time, and genuine freedom.
The calculation problem that haunted socialism for a century has been solved. Now we need to build the alternative.
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