I don't want to speak for him but from his other writing I think idlewords has a fair idea (from personal experience) of what old fashioned central planning communism looks like.
For the record, there are lots of places on the socialism spectrum and many of them haven't deteriorated at all, and some of them look quite lovely...
I do not mind central planing. I like Soviet culture far more than Hollywood and CocaCola. I even can see myself a soviet soldier ready to defend homeland.
I just do not want to bring a Red Flag to evey corner of the world on a bayonet of my rifle. And that's it. Even if I bring free cookies and right to privacy with it.
There is no "socialism in one dedicated country". Socialism needs whole planet. Lenin said that pretty clear.
Heck America is Socialist by American standards. Sure, after the Great Depression we got half a dozen Socialist institutions, but I'm not talking about that.
Every cooperative preschool; every farmers' coop; every social club in America operates on Socialist principle. In private we love Socialism; in public we resist. No idea why.
In Soviet Russia we tried vice versa: to operate farm as a state.
Even today every business entity has to have specific person responsible for accounting, fire defence, labor health, energy efficiency etc even if you have just 1 employee and he is business owner.
If you write customer name and birday somewhere (or name + almost anything), you have to sign with him additional agreement about personal data. There you have to specify how you will use it. If you get blood type or any other health info - you will have to certify your datacenter, use open crypto and have specific responsible employees.
