WhileB. Rosser is correct that many advocates of socialist planning do NOT address the issue of what classes might or might not develop, and do NOT explain HOW workers (and consumers) would exactly participate in the planning process; that is NOT true of either Pat Devine whose book and articles on the subject of democratic planning deal extensively and in great detail with these two critical issues; nor is it true of the work that I have published with Michael Albert on "participatory planning." Devine, Albert and I were largely motivated by the lack of concrete attention to these issues by many advocates of democratic planning and opponents of market "socialism." Of course, our arguments may be ill-founded, but they are there for any who care to consider them and respond.
