• DOI:10.1521/SISO.66.1.29.21009
• Corpus ID: 145580437

Democratic Planned Socialism: Feasible Economic Procedures

@article{Campbell2002DemocraticPS,
  title={Democratic Planned Socialism: Feasible Economic Procedures},
  author={Al Campbell},
  journal={Science \& Society},
  year={2002},
  volume={66},
  pages={29-42}
}

• Al Campbell
• Published 1 March 2002
• Economics
• Science & Society

OVER THE YEARS, MANY SOCIALISTS have written about the undesirability or impossibility of using markets in an authentic socialist society. Well-known early advocates of this position include Marx (1875), Bellamy (1888), Kautsky (1892), Bukkarin and Preobrazhensky (1919), and Neurath (1919). Only recently, however, have more fully worked out models of Democratic Planned Socialism (DPS)1 been put forward by Devine (1988), Albert and Hahnel (1991a; 1991b), Cockshott and Cottrell (1993) and Laibman (1992; 1995; 1999).2 There are two key and differentiating elements in models of DPS: the type of procedures for instituting democratic control by people of all the institutions they are part of, and the procedures for conscious coordination, control and planning of the economy. Due to space limitations this article will address only the latter, but that should not to be construed to imply that the author believes that specifica-