Having read Luhmann (systems theory) and being grown up in post-GDR East-Germany I'd say: Capitalist democracies (power) delegate most resource management to a different functional system (finance). Transparency is strongly regulated, can be fought for through a third separate functional system (law) and can be observed though a fourth functional system (mass media).

In GDR, all these delegated systems strongly depended on the centralized planning. So to make one possible conclusion: to fix that transparency issue to a certain degree, you could delegate resource plannig to a decentralized, self-managed system.

I understand, that some present decentralized, self-managed systems are Monopoly games, also considered capitalisms. But this doesn't hold true for all. Most are just very decentralized and just almost self-managed systems. Law fights monopolies. Lawmakers dampen extreme aggregation and extreme poverty.

Approaches to transparent Socialisms should not only include transparency as a starting condition but also the constant structural reproduction of it from within. From scratch, it is hard to come up with completely different functional systems (not power-finance-law-media) that harmonize better than what we have. (game theory) Luhmann said, we have to fix it step by step until we come to a better, different system. Marx also knew that wanted workers to become self-aware, solidary and tough enough to accomplish adjustments against the rich. You see, this democracy already looks totally socialist when compared to the 1920s.

Cheaper rents (though flats overflow) would solve a lot of Germany present day problems like

• lack of flats
• vanished income disparity between minimum wage and basic income (in some cases, it doesn't pay off to work because rents for receivers of basic incomes are paid 100% but not for low income workers while rents explode)

It has to be done using public investment (tending or subsidies). We don't have that yet. Workers should fight for THAT and NOT for lashing basic income receivers harder.