What is "counterplan"

n. a plot intended to subvert another plot [syn: counterplot]

A counterplan is a component of debate theory commonly employed in the activity of parliamentary and policy debate. While some conceptions of debate theory require the negative position in a debate to defend the status quo against an affirmative position or plan, a counterplan allows the negative to defend a separate plan or an advocacy. It also allows the aff. to run disadvantages against the neg.

In the economy of the Soviet Union and other communist states of the Soviet Bloc, the counterplan was a plan put forth by workers of an enterprise (or its structural unit) to exceed the expectations of the state plan allocated for the enterprise/unit. It was an important part of the socialist competition.

According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, the idea of the counterplan was put forth by the workers of the Karl Marx Plant, Leningrad, in June 1930, during the First Five-Year Plan.

Since the 1960s, counterplans, in the form of socialist obligations, to execute state plans (annual, quarterly, monthly) ahead of schedule were common in the Soviet Union and other communist states.

Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s.

This film could be considered as a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch " wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory.

Counterplan may refer to:

• Counterplan, a component of argumentation theory
• Counterplan, a component of Soviet labor system
• Counterplan (film), a 1931 Soviet film