Kubra wrote:impossible to resupply, easy targets for air assets (or even just artillery), and providing little more than cover and concealment from small arms fire.
From the same lying Wikipedia: "He observed how dome-shaped fortifications were virtually impervious to artillery fire and bombs, which simply ricocheted off the dome".
That was already covered, people had guaranteed a house, I already told Novus this before.
Kubra wrote:bunkers were useful to the politburo as a means of militarising society. That would most certainly represent a form of surplus-value extraction.
The creation of a people's military isn't bad, it's helpful in case there's a need to remove infiltrators in the state and to prevent invasion training young people. In case the state turns tyrannical, this also allows them to overthrow them. But this didn't happen, what happened was that revisionists took power with Ramiz Alia inside the party after the death of Hoxha, like the USSR started with Khruschev after the death of Stalin until its total collapse decades after. There aren't enough mechanisms of vigilance, accountability and culture in the people along with the ideological formation, all this allows these takeovers in the party; these people inside try to appear red and when they're given the positions they just erase everything with their "moderation" and center-leftism.
There's not a personal gain in bunkers, it's a defense benefit. Now, as Novus does, that you could argue that in a marginalist economic approach you can say... "the opportunity cost is worse than using the labour/concrete to build a professional military so it's exploitation". This is alien and forced, you're evaluating a situation in the future which we have to experiment, they were taking a democratic decision to benefit everyone according to their specific situation. An error doesn't make it exploitation, the error would affect the whole country including the entire party, and taking into account there's no exploiter bourgeoisie and over time not even taxes, it makes the criticism even more absurd, and even more absurd saying capitalist countries do this better when they waste the people's budget everytime and not only in public programs but in luxuries and their client networks. Yet, Novus can't prove it was really a bad decision since he quotes Wikipedia with sources and admits it, the airborne thing doesn't appear in Hoxha's selected works (it's a source of dialogues), it's been proven they were surrounded by enemies in the 50s and in the 70s with China's split. The critique consists in speculation about if the resources could be used to build better defended buildings, better weapons and equipment or a more professional military while they make it more loyal.
The next thing in this logic, I don't know. We try to save someone in a hospital and we try to operate and put medicine, but dies and something is wasted. Then calling this extraction of surplus-value because the opportunity cost for saving resources could be simply not trying to save the person. For that we'd have to see the future.