Dragan,

>>For one, the workers had the incentive, would come up with an idea, and there was a good chance the idea would be given a fair try. It largely depended on people, but then not just the narrow bunch on top, but rather on those who were involved at the practical level where it happened.

That used to be and still is common in industry. The person with the idea generally gets a monetary reward in the Capitalist version ;-)

>>Such initiatives existed everywhere - and as long as what you wanted to do wasn't against some Party bighead's convictions, you could get away with a lot. And you didn't have to wait for orders to come from anywhere...

Do I hear the faint stirrings of nostalgia? ;-) The problem with anarchy, excluding the sensationalist depiction it often receives, is that nature, and organized selfish people, abhor a vacuum. It gets filled. Which is why democracy survives as it does. It celebrates the reality, requiring regular inconvenient, inefficient elections to prevent predictable efforts to screw it up completely.