"Central "Planning is really Holistic Planning.

[Joe R. Golowka]

> "Central "Planning is really Holistic Planning.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> CB: The logical paradox for the anti-centralized planners is as follows.
"Central" planning really means planning the whole thing, holistic planning.
Why on earth would the informational flow or anything else of the WHOLE be
more orderly and coordinated by the interactions of  a few PARTS which are
explicitly forbidden to consider the WHOLE , ALL of the parts ?  The
communications regarding parts between parts will not miraculously make a
better plan for the whole than an explicit effort to coordinate the
communications of the whole, all the parts.

You can have planning without centralized planning.  Decentralized planning
like Syndicalism and Parecon are other options, as is a gift economy.  A
problem with centralized planning is that it puts disproportianate power in
the hands of the planners.  By spreading decision making power around in a
more decentralized model you get better decisions & info on what the
different parts want.