In general, it was argued that centralized forms of economic planning that excluded participation by the workers involved in the industries would not be sufficient at capturing adequate amounts of information to coordinate an economy effectively, while also undermining socialism and the concept of worker's self-management and democratic decision-making central to socialism.
这一观点通常指出，集中式的经济计划排除了工人在产业中参与的部分，不能有效获取足够的信息来有效的协调经济，同时也破坏了社会主义和工人自治及对社会主义的民主决策中央的观念。