International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
We are an international network of workers, students, researchers, and activists, who share the common goal of advancing a post-capitalist economic system based on democratic economic planning.
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- Hermann Lueer reviews German Translation of Peter Hudis’ “Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism”
Where capitalist relations are not understood in terms of their fundamental categories, the vision of a different society remains necessarily vague or risks reproducing precisely those forms it seeks to overcome. Peter Hudis’s comprehensive study – “Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism” – which has recently been published in German translation by Red & Black Books under the title “Jenseits des Kapitalismus. Kritik und Alternative bei Marx”, is devoted precisely to this often-overlooked dimension of Marx’s work. It traces the connection between critique and alternative through the various phases of Marx’s work – from his early philosophical writings, through the drafts of Capital, to the Critique of the Gotha Programme. - 11 Theses on Planning Published
Emerging from discussions at the “The Grounds of Planning: Rationality, Pseudorationality and Critique“, which was held in Berlin in December 2025, a text formulating 11 theses on planning has been published by Jacob Blumenfeld, Rabea Berfelde and Solveig… Read more: 11 Theses on Planning Published - Recording of the Colloquium Planning the Social and Ecological Transformation Uploaded
The full colloquium organized by STRIVE at the University of Lausanne on April 23rd has been recorded and uploaded. Here is the program with links to the right part of the recording. All the presentations at the colloquium… Read more: Recording of the Colloquium Planning the Social and Ecological Transformation Uploaded










