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Organization and planning are not the same as centralization and concentration of power. It would be absurd to conflate the two. So do these quotes justify your

• AstralStorm 9y ago
  purposed organizations were worker committees or what is essentially the more democratic version of worker union. With some relatively minor central oversight. Sometimes committee of experts (not government ones). Definitely the policies were not supposed to be subsumed by national ideology or ideas of people in charge.
• ameister14 9y ago
  In order to effectively execute such planning and transition from capitalist to communist, it required concentration of power in the federal government - further management was required to maintain equitable distribution of population, labor and resources. That's why, in the transition period, power would end up concentrated in the hands of a small group of people. Obviously eventually the idea was that the State would cease to be anything more than a mechanism for distribution of resources and stop managing people, but there are an awful lot of problems with that, conceptually. Also, the guy I responded to said it didn't have to involve central planning. It kinda does, at least Marx and Engel's version does.