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Chapter 8: Planning Organizations
8.4. Organizations related to the local economic planning
The term "local" here has a different meaning between a unitary Zone and a federal Zone. In the former case it refers to a Provincial Area as a wide local authority, while in the latter case it refers to a Quasi-Zone (a Zonelet) that makes up the federal Zone.
Among these, a Quasi-Zone, as its name suggests, is similar to a Zone and is self-contained like states in a current federal state, so it could be argued that it should be allowed to have the authority to formulate its own economic plan (production plan) just like a Zone.
In the case of a federal Zone, the bare minimum would be to allow economic representatives from each Quasi-Zone to participate in the Economic Planning Conference that is involved in formulating economic plan for the entire Zone. Beyond that, whether or not to grant Quasi-Zones the authority to formulate their own economic plans is left to the autonomous decision of each federated Zone.
Whether unitary or federal, the core of local economic planning is the consumption plan. A consumption plan is an economic plan limited to consumption, formulated with the goal of local production and consumption, and the organization that formulates it is a Consumer Business Organization established in each local area.
A Consumer Business Organization is itself a supplier of daily necessities, and at the same time, it is also an organization that formulates consumption plan. Furthermore, since local end consumption cannot be unrelated to the economic plan of the entire Zone, each Consumer Business Organization sets up representative division at Zonal Economic Planning Conference and to be involved as an observes in the formulation of the Zone's economic plan.
A Consumer business Organization has many goods-producing enterprises as affiliated organizations, but most of these enterprises are self-managed enterprises (the Production Cooperatives) that are basically outside the scope of the planned economy. These enterprises are not directly involved in the formulation of consumption plan, but they create their own in-house production plans and produce within the scope of the consumption plan.
Incidentally, since food accounts for a significant portion of the goods supplied by the Consumer Business Cooperatives, the Agricultural Production Organizations and Fishery Production Organization, which are involved in the production of agricultural and fishery products that are the raw materials for food, are also important parties in terms of consumption planning. Specifically, their local offices are involved in consumption planning by also serving as corporate members of the Consumer Business Cooperatives.
In other words, the Agricultural Production organizations and the Fisheries Production Organizations are doubly involved in economic planning, as they are involved in Zonal economic planning as an organization as a whole, and at the same time, are involved in local consumption planning at the local office level.
Furthermore, a consumption plan is submitted to the local Commons' Convention (the Provincial Commons' Convention in the unitary type, and the Quasi-Zonal Commons' Convention in the federal type) and come into effect after deliberation and resolution, which is the same structure as Zonal economic planning.
In that respect, the Consumer Business Cooperatives are conference bodies run by representative system, with all residents of the jurisdiction automatically as members, and in themselves can be said to have the significance of a lower house of the local authority.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
