I will happily admit that my study of government types is very shaded by a finance/economics background; so I was always more interested in the command versus “invisible hand” aspects of Communism, since by all rational expectations you could plan better than market forces production while optimizing for different factors than short term, individual profit. (This spring showed us how badly the market can fail rapidly changing conditions and how fragile capitalism is- and frankly how bad it is for the people.)
Honestly, I am having trouble understanding how Communism (the command market economy) would work without central planning, although in a confederation of small tribal or communist “cells” you could have trade agreements between cells and a understanding of needs firsthand within the cell take the place of a central authority…
