ABSTRACT
Planning as opposed to aimless drifting is the natural inclination of a purposeful scientifically trained mind. Modern engineering is an inspiration to grandiose planning. The military spirit is prevalent in the Fascist forms of collectivist planning; the Socialist form represented by Soviet planning has a more civilian outlook, being mainly influenced by American ideas of extreme mechanisation and of large scale construction and management. The more explicit and more extreme forms of planning are professed by Socialism, as represented by the Soviet Union. The term 'decentralised planning' is, however, contradictory. The essence of planning is unity achieved by control from a centre. General planning is wholesale destruction of freedom; cultural planning would be the end of all inspired enquiry, of every creative effort, and planned economy would make life into something between a universal monastery and a forced labour camp.
