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Planning vs Political Economy

Tom O’Brien

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“A planned system where the division of necessary and surplus product is the result of deliberate social decision”

  • Cockshott and Cottrell, Towards a New Socialism

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Fallacy of the Converse

Socialism

Planning

Planning

Socialism

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Anarchy of the Market

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1. Productive

2. Strategic

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Individual Reproduction

VS

Communal Reproduction

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Central Planning is not a

Marxist Concept

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Ex-ante

vs

Ex-post

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Directly Social

vs

Indirectly Social

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Planning is epiphenomenal of communal relations of production

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Planning

Economic Category

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Political Economy

VS

Planning Techniques

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Political Economy

&

Cybernetics