Ted Winslow wrote:
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> The phrase "central planner" is ambiguous. Planning carried out by
> "universally developed," "freely associated" producers would, given
> the meaning of "universally developed" and "freely associated", be, by
> definition, the smartest imaginable organizing principle. It would be
> an essential aspect of fully actualized "freedom".
Such producers, I would think, would only come into existence in the later 'stages' of communist development. That (or the concept of it) may serve to give a deeper understanding of the present (by looking back on it historically. But how does the concept throw light on the 'problems' of a socialist regime as it first emerges from capitalism. Those who are build both the movement for socialism _and_ the early decades of a socialist society are individuals 'created' by capitalism, and those who create the world of "'freely associated' producers" will not themselves "universally developed."
Carrol