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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

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Socialism

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Anarchy of the Market

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1. Productive

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2. Strategic

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Individual Reproduction

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VS

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Communal Reproduction

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Central Planning is not a

Marxist Concept

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Ex-ante

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vs

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Ex-post

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Directly Social

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vs

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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

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VS

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Planning Techniques

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Political Economy

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&

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Cybernetics

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