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Call to Action for German Day of Socialization Initiatives
Read more: Call to Action for German Day of Socialization InitiativesThe think tank Communia has recently published a blog post sharing a call to action for a day of socialization by an alliance of multiple groups and initiatives fighting for socialization. The day will be on the 10th of October and is program is currently in the works. The call to action invites people and…
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Article on Defending Article 15 of German Constitution which Allows Socialization Against Political Attacks
Read more: Article on Defending Article 15 of German Constitution which Allows Socialization Against Political AttacksThe think tank Communia has recently published a blog post on defending article 15 of the German constitution, which allows for socialization against recent political attacks. In the blog post they explain socialization, how article 15 allows it, how it can be put into practice, recent attacks by political enemies against socialization and what possibilities…
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Article on Feminist Socialization Published
Read more: Article on Feminist Socialization PublishedBarbara Fried and Alex Wischnewski have recently published an article on socialization from a feminist perspective in the online part of the magazine “Luxemburg“, which is published by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Socialization has now become part of the strategic repertoire of left-wing politics and has given rise to a multitude of ideas and levers…
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Ecological Unit Website Has Article On Achieving Metabolic Balance And A Simulation For A New Ecological Unit Of Account
Read more: Ecological Unit Website Has Article On Achieving Metabolic Balance And A Simulation For A New Ecological Unit Of AccountThe destructive nature of capitalism calls for a new economic system. While alternatives emphasize social justice, the issue of managing finite resources is often neglected. On the website Ecological Unit, there is an article that proposes a module for a post-capitalist economy that introduces a new ecological unit of account (Ecu) based on planetary boundaries…
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Podcast on Socialization of Coal Industry in Germany Published
Read more: Podcast on Socialization of Coal Industry in Germany PublishedThe German Podcast “Geschichte der kommenden Welten” (history of coming worlds) has published a podcast on the history of the struggle over socialization of the coal industry in Germany. This podcast was created in cooperation with the think tank “Communia” and was inspired by their recently published report on the history of socialization of the…
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Talk by Heide Lutosch on a Feminist Approach to the Planning Debate Uploaded
Read more: Talk by Heide Lutosch on a Feminist Approach to the Planning Debate UploadedHeide Lutosch recently gave a talk in which she critiqued the dominant approaches in the debate around democratic economic planning from a feminist perspective and highlighted that they systematically neglect the question of care work. She layed out a possible approach that thinks planning from the perspective of care work itself, taking it as a…
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Second Webinar of “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” Series uploaded
Read more: Second Webinar of “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” Series uploadedThe second webinar of the “Reviving Central Planning – A Global South Perspective” series, hosted by the International Development Economics Associates Limited (IDEAs), has been uploaded to their YouTube channel. It is titled “National Planning – The Soviet Union Model” and featured C. P. Chandrasekhar and Prabhat Patnaik as panelists and was moderated by Farwa…
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Common Wealth Report Argues For Democratic Economic Planning To Coordinate Global Decarbonization
Read more: Common Wealth Report Argues For Democratic Economic Planning To Coordinate Global DecarbonizationThe think tank Common Wealth has published a report by Common Wealth US Programme Director Melanie Brusseler and political economist Stefan Zylinski critique the Wall Street Consensus for failing to finance global decarbonization and arguing that democratic economic planning will be required to coordinate global decarbonization. A summary of the report can be found below:…
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Emancipations Journal Publishes Special Issue On Economic Planning
Read more: Emancipations Journal Publishes Special Issue On Economic PlanningThe interdisciplinary, open-access journal Emancipations has published a special issue devoted to economic planning, featuring contributions from Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, and others. The issue is guest-edited by Larry Alan Busk, who also participates in a debate piece with an Austrian School economist on the contemporary relevance of the calculation debate. The issue’s table of…
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Recording of Talk by Tom O’Brien on Variety and Planning Uploaded
Read more: Recording of Talk by Tom O’Brien on Variety and Planning UploadedThe recording of our recent online Talk with Tom O’Brien on Variety and Planning has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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General Intellect Unit Podcast Returns With Episode On Aaron Benanav’s Beyond Capitalism—I Essay
Read more: General Intellect Unit Podcast Returns With Episode On Aaron Benanav’s Beyond Capitalism—I EssayThe podcast General Intellect Unit has ended its hiatus through releasing an episode where host Kyle Thompson and our very own James Macumber discuss the essay “Beyond Capitalism—I” by Aaron Benanav that was published in New Left Review, which outlines the theoretical foundations of Benanav’s proposal for a multi-criterial socialism. A summary of the podcast…
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Cosmonaut Article On Understanding Health Care Economies To Inform Planning Debates
Read more: Cosmonaut Article On Understanding Health Care Economies To Inform Planning DebatesIshaan Shah writes in English for Cosmonaut Magazine about the dynamics of health care economies in relation to debates about democratic economic planning. Feel free to reach out to the author at planning4health@protonmail.com A summary of the article can be found below: Addressing the degraded conditions of the modern healthcare industry, Ishaan Shah urges partisans…
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