I thing that planning is possible nationally for agriculture, industry and
the services, but planning the technological progress is possible only globally.
Technology progress means unemployment, and that was not acceptable in the
Soviet Union, so the bureaucracy waited for a stability in technological
progress to introduce it without unemployment, but the stability never came. All
Soviet planning was based on the old paradigm of petroleum, electricity, fordism
and taylorism. It could not introduce the new techologies without generating
unemployment in the civilian sectors, since technologies were always changing.
The abolition of whole employment destroyed the popularity of the Soviet
system.
Renato Pompeu
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high technology: Correction
Should read:Planning IS NOT a property relation and
socialism as a political form of property, means reproduction outside of
the law system that compels private capital to follow a circuit of
profitability.
