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The article discusses the problem of the scientific analysis of democratic planning. First, this requires a correct comprehension of the laws of development characteristic of the situation. The actual plan must be determined by the people themselves at all levels. Thus, while the questions which arise are immense and innumerable, the basic problems center around the relationship of the objective development tendencies and the subjective factor, participation. Decentralization, for instance is more properly a problem of the relationship between the technical and participatory components and of society's potential for self-guidance. Modern capitalism is dominated by attempts to implement and extend comprehensive control of the development of society in every sphere of social life. The development of planning under state-monopoly capitalism thus reflects the increasing role of the state and its attempts to prevent the decline for the rate of profit and to uphold the capitalist system. By counter-planning, it means, attempts to influence the capitalist planning process from the outside by means of creating new planning organs, new competitive alternative plans or opposition to plans. There are three specific groups of approaches, namely the technological approaches to participation, the advocacy planning models and the utopian solutions. |
