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Not all collectivists are communists/socialists.
Communists do not believe in property (and thus they don't understand why the first American colonies starved and had to found private property in order to survive).
Socialists believe in private property, they just don't believe in people being successful (oh, sorry, they think that if you're successful you "owe" something to society). This is why you can have "Left-Libertarians" and "Libertarian Socialists." They believe in "free markets" and "private property," they just also believe in taxes (even if they recognize them as theft), and are more prone to accepting looser stances on things like squatters rights that are more in-tune with Mutualists.
But I'm rambling. Central authorities don't need to be socialist/communist. They don't even need to be involved in the economy. The issue with central planning is only partially to do with the economy- it mostly has to do with the fact that a central authority will make blanket laws that work for their particular region, but could have devastating consequences for those in another region that has to abide by their rules.
E.G. if the federal government demanded that everyone use "renewable" resources tomorrow, but then proceeded to tell everyone that they needed to use water power, it would be fine for areas near water, but for other regions they'd pretty much be fucked.