Communist Devolution. Socialist Devolution. The Cultural Devolution. A Devolution in how we pay for healthcare. The Bolshevik Devolution.
The Bernie Sanders Devolution.
With Communism, it is all about breaking what works, and substituting tyranny. People ask for bread, you club them. If they object to being clubbed, you jail them, perhaps in a place where they spend all day working, and all night learning about how all this work is good for them, and how much the government loves them and how if they weren’t such upstarts and idiots they would see how wonderful the whole system is.
I will reiterate that Complex orders–which is to say, free markets and free societies–are informationally vastly more rich than what we might call, in contrast, simple or simplistic orders, which is one place for decisions, then a propagating apparatus which causes everything to synch up in the same way at the same time. Such orders are informationally poor. This is a mathematically necessary conclusion. There is no other possible conclusion, although one can debate the merits of each approach.
But if we posit that more information is always better, then it is mathematically necessary to always view an increase in centralized control as a devolution.
And I will note that most of the advantages of centralized control stem from increased coherence in war. Economically, such control is disastrous. It is only for war that most large complex governments have come into being.
War, perhaps, is the ultimate dissolution, the ultimate disorder. It is not similar to a free market, free society. It is the polar opposite, and Communism–which in large measure is defined by the war of the elites against anyone opposing them–exists on that continuum, right next to open warfare, into which, of course, Communism has often entered vigorously. There were few major wars in the 20th Century which did not involve Communists. Even Hitler could not have come to power EXCEPT in opposition to Soviet Communism, and those agitating for it in Weimar Germany.