The The philosophical idea of planning: constructing a philosophical idea from an operative phenomenon

Abstract

This paper addresses planning as a philosophical problem from the perspective of philosophical materialism, distinguishing between its ontological and gnoseological dimensions. Against its reduction to a contemporary administrative technique, it argues that planning constitutes a historically determined operational phenomenon whose essence requires an analysis of the technological and political conditions underlying its emergence.

From the earliest records of surplus in primitive societies to the generalization of the money form described by Marx, the paper examines the relationships between planning, productive forces, urbanization, and the State. It also explores its transformations in the Hispanic world, the tensions arising from liberal modernity, and its gnoseological formulations in capitalist and socialist economies and Latin America.

Finally, an ontological synthesis is proposed, defining planning as a set of techniques and technologies aimed at the reproduction and development of the political body, conditioned by the productive forces, forms of property, and economic organization of each society.