Siege economy as an institutional precursor of state socialism
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State socialism had little in common with a model of stateless egalitarian communalism envisioned by Karl Marx. At the same time, its designers borrowed heavily from a model of a German state-controlled economy instituted during the First World War [1]. German war socialism, in turn, curiously resembled a form of organization historically employed in besieged fortresses [2]. In the medieval towns surrounded by the enemy troops commanders requisitioned war-related resources and rationed out these resources to the defenders. After examining few episodes of siege warfare, that study argues that social organization of besieged fortress may be viewed as a true institutional precursor of state socialism.
State socialism, war, revolution, siege, siege economy
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