command economy
Noun
Meaning
command economy (plural command economies)
(economics, politics) An economic system in which activity is directly controlled by the government and the means of production are publicly owned.
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The whole point of the military-first policy was not so much to whip up support for the military as to de-ideologize the economic sector, to make it possible to dismantle the command economy without dismantling the authority of the whole system.