Freedom and Social Planning

While the trend toward planning has gained momentum in recent years, the theory of social planning has not been developed correspondingly. The political implications of planning are often underrated in the present discussion. A theory of social planning must take cognizance of them: the objective of any plan is political, its execution involves political problems, and its fulfilment might bear on activities and relathionship which were not planned. The desire for freedom will be reduced by pressure upon the structure as a unit, no matter whether the pressure is real or merely imaginary. Planning is therefore facilitated in emergency situations, particularly in times of war. Radical planning, i.e., planning which disrupts basic mores, is confronted with a paradox. Planning is a product of logical reasoning, the sucess of which is best secured if it can count on a non-logical consensus. The most radical type of planning in modern society is that which disrupts the mores pertainin to property. In trying to establish freedom from the capitalistic kind of control, it is bound to revive "honor" as a basic kind of social control

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