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The forms and their relation
Productive property takes four social forms, and no fifth may be invented.
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Social Ownership And Economic Coordination
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Chapter 1 · Forms of Social Ownership
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The commons
The commons cannot be sold or pledged, and the people who use them help govern them.
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Cooperative usufruct
A cooperative holds its assets for as long as it works them, never as owner.
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Internal constitution of the cooperative
Every worker is a member with one vote, and officers are elected and recallable at any time.
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Communal and regional enterprise
Communes and regions may run enterprises, governed together with workers and users.
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Public establishments
Health, education, care, research and the commons run as public establishments, never for gain.
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Personal craft and prohibited forms
You may work alone or with your household, and employing anyone outside it is prohibited.
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Federations
Enterprises in a branch federate, sharing knowledge, reserves and representation.
Chapter 2 · Organs and Procedure of Planning
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Principles of the plan
The plan meets registered needs in physical units, decided by people and never by computation.
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Priority within the plan
Essentials come first, then restoration, then upkeep, then everything else.
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Workplace assemblies
Each workplace states publicly what it needs and what it can make.
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User and neighbourhood assemblies
Neighbourhoods and users hold assemblies whose statements count equally with the workplaces'.
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Communal economic councils
Each commune has an economic council answering to its elected council.
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Regional economic councils
Each region has an economic council reconciling what its sub-regions could not.
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The National Planning Congress and the Planning Secretariat
A National Planning Congress adopts the plan, and its Secretariat computes but decides nothing.
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The planning cycle
Planning runs a five-year cycle of statements, computation, at least three rounds of negotiation, and public accounts.
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Reconciliation and deadlock
Disagreements rise one level at a time, and delay never interrupts essential provision.
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Adjustment during the period
The plan is adjusted in-year for disaster, shortfall or changed need, with reasons published.
Chapter 3 · Allocation, Accounts and Enterprise Discipline
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Resource ceilings and accounts
Every enterprise holds a binding resource ceiling and keeps public accounts in physical units.
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Review of performance
Federations review each enterprise yearly in public, against needs met and ceilings kept.
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Support
A failing enterprise may be supported for at most three years, publicly, and is then reorganised.
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Cause of difficulty
Before support, the federation must say whether the fault lay with the plan or with the management.
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Reorganisation and dissolution
Reorganisation moves assets and people, and nobody loses provision, training or a place.
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Reserve, formation and experiment
The plan holds a reserve for disaster, for founding new cooperatives, and for experiment.
Chapter 4 · Provision and Distribution
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Categories of provision
Provision comes in four grades: essential, general, minor discretionary, and shared heavy goods.
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General provision
General provision covers clothing, furniture, tools, bicycles, books, devices, transport and much more, free.
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Personal computing and communication devices
Everyone who needs one gets a repairable phone and computer, with free parts for ten years.
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Freedom of software
Device software is free and open, the user holds full control, and locked devices are prohibited.
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Durability and the standard of design
Goods must meet minimum service lives, guaranteed parts, and a route back into use.
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The residual unit of account
A personal, equal, expiring token allocates small luxuries, and it cannot be saved, lent or traded.
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Resource-intensive goods and common use
Resource-heavy goods are held in common and booked, never allocated to one person.
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Fair allocation and waiting
When supply falls short, allocation follows urgency, waiting time and lot, never favour.
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Prohibition of parallel markets
Reselling what you were given, hoarding for exchange, or trading queue places is prohibited.
Chapter 5 · Labour in the Plan
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Allocation of labour
Labour reaches tasks by choice, and unpopular work gets shorter hours, with no compulsion available.
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Arduous tasks, rotation and training
Dangerous and degrading tasks are registered publicly, rotated, and engineered away.
Chapter 6 · External Economic Relations
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Planned external exchange
Foreign trade runs through one account, counts against the budgets, and creates no debt.
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Solidarity transfers
Solidarity is sent in goods and knowledge, never as a loan and never with conditions.