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Tony Smith’s new Book “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” published
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in BooksRead more: Tony Smith’s new Book “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” publishedMarxist theorist Tony Smith just published the book A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’, at Brill. After outlining a Marxist critique […]
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New Video on the Failure of Historical Socialism
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in VideosRead more: New Video on the Failure of Historical SocialismSimon Sutterlütti has recently published a video analysing the failure of historical socialism. His fundamental critique is that it failed because it was still based on wage-labor and good were […]
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Article about Legal Evaluation on the Socialization of the Energy Sector in German Newspaper
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in NewsRead more: Article about Legal Evaluation on the Socialization of the Energy Sector in German NewspaperThe German newspaper taz has published an article reporting on the recently published legal evaluation on the possibility of socializing the energy sector. The legal evalutation was commissioned by the […]
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Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt now also available in English
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in NewsRead more: Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt now also available in EnglishThe website “Wirtschaftsdemokratie.jetzt” (“Economic and organisational democracy”), which contains diverse materials on economic and organisational democracy on the macro-, meso- and microscale, is now also available in English. To switch […]
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Job Offer at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany
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in JobsRead more: Job Offer at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, GermanyAt the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig we offer a position for a dedicated scientist to join the team as soon as possible to work on a research project. The project will develop and apply innovative sustainability assessment methods to explore the socio-ecological transformation of regions undergoing structural change. For this, we…
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Recording of INDEP online Presentation by the IDA uploaded to YouTube
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in NewsRead more: Recording of INDEP online Presentation by the IDA uploaded to YouTubeThe recording of the INDEP online event with the IDA on their labour time accounting app has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can find the video via […]
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Tim Platenkamp proposes a new model of democratic economic planning
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in BooksRead more: Tim Platenkamp proposes a new model of democratic economic planningTim Plantenkamp, a trade unionist, just published a book The Constitution of Socialism: A World without Capital, at Brill. The book is divided into two main sections: Diagnosis and Remedy. […]
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Paper on Green Financial Planning citing DEP proponents in Journal “New Political Economy”
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in ArticlesRead more: Paper on Green Financial Planning citing DEP proponents in Journal “New Political Economy”A new paper by James Jackson and Mathias Larsen titled “Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement” has been published in the journal “New Political Economy“, […]
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Article pleading for Democratic Economic Planning in big German leftist Newspaper
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in ArticlesRead more: Article pleading for Democratic Economic Planning in big German leftist NewspaperRecently an article pleading for the wieder left (from parties to the extra-parlamentary left) to pay attention to and participate in the revived debate around democratic economic planning has appeared […]
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Panel on the Historical Subject of Planning at the Paris Historical Materialism Conference
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in NewsRead more: Panel on the Historical Subject of Planning at the Paris Historical Materialism ConferenceAt this year’s Historical Materialism conference in Paris there is going to be a panel with the title “Après la révolution – Quel sujet historique pour la planification? (After the […]
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Appeal to Members of the European Parliament to not intensify competitive Market Mechanisms in its Public Procurement
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in NewsRead more: Appeal to Members of the European Parliament to not intensify competitive Market Mechanisms in its Public ProcurementThe European Union is on the brink of introducing sweeping changes to its public procurement rules, with the European Parliament’s Internal Market Committee (IMCO) set to vote on June 26 […]
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“A Political Economy of Socialism” – Article by the IDA on the Planning Debate and Labour Time Calculation
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in ArticlesRead more: “A Political Economy of Socialism” – Article by the IDA on the Planning Debate and Labour Time CalculationIn “A Political Economy of Socialism,” the IDA analyzes the debate of democratic planned economy in the light of labour time calculation. The article is behind a paywall and available in German.
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