Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination: An Entry in the ‘Envisioning Socialism’ Models Competition
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In recent decades various operational models of a socialist economy have beenput forward in the English-language literature. One of these ― MultilevelDemocratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC) ― attempts a synthesis of central anddecentral forms of organization, and also of quantitative and qualitative/politicalmodes of regulation. The MDIC model proposes an iterative planning system,unique roles for the central level, a sophisticated measure of enterpriseperformance, a reward function that rewards both ambitious planning andrealistic plan fulfillment, and progressive development of democratic andparticipatory qualities at all levels and in all regulation contexts. With an outlineof these features in tow, the model ― when compared to other approaches via a‘model of the models’ ― emerges as the one with the greatest capacity tosynthesize the important insights of the others. It also captures the potential thatwas inherent in the Soviet system, but was thwarted due to authoritarian andrepressive distortions. The MDIC model, then, is also a call for recuperation ofthe positive elements in the Soviet experience; for embodying, critically, theachievements of the socialism of the 20th century in the project of developingvisions of socialism for the 21st.
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In recent decades various operational models of a socialist economy have beenput forward in the English-language literature. One of these ― MultilevelDemocratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC) ― attempts a synthesis of central anddecentral forms of organization, and also of quantitative and qualitative/politicalmodes of regulation. The MDIC model proposes an iterative planning system,unique roles for the central level, a sophisticated measure of enterpriseperformance, a reward function that rewards both ambitious planning andrealistic plan fulfillment, and progressive development of democratic andparticipatory qualities at all levels and in all regulation contexts. With an outlineof these features in tow, the model ― when compared to other approaches via a‘model of the models’ ― emerges as the one with the greatest capacity tosynthesize the important insights of the others. It also captures the potential thatwas inherent in the Soviet system, but was thwarted due to authoritarian andrepressive distortions. The MDIC model, then, is also a call for recuperation ofthe positive elements in the Soviet experience; for embodying, critically, theachievements of the socialism of the 20th century in the project of developingvisions of socialism for the 21st.
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