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To: koan who wrote (16465)	4/27/2017 6:51:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364847

You said "democratic socialism" doesn't involve central planning because its democratic (you did not phrase it that way but you did say "decisions are done according to the people and their representatives" which assuming the representatives are elected amounts to the same thing). I pointed out that it being democratic doesn't prevent it from being central planning (again phrased in a different way, but since you seem to not understand the point its worth rephrasing). The main thing that keeps it from involving central planing is the limit to how socialist it actually is. In most "democratic socialist" countries you have economies that to a large degree are market directed. If its market directed its not central planning. The more you move it to government owned and directed, the more you are left with central planning. The more you allow economic freedom and decentralized private decision making, the less you have central planning. Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, etc. have a lot of private ownership and private economic decision making.