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Article responding to criticism by ‘Angry Workers’ of the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’
Read more: Article responding to criticism by ‘Angry Workers’ of the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’This article by Hermann Lueer responds to the ‘Thoughts on the Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’ by Angry Workers. It argues that many of their critical remarks regarding the ‘Fundamental Principles‘ are based on a misunderstanding of the text, its subject matter and the context in which it was published. By addressing these…
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Aaron Benanav publishes the second article on his multi-criterial socialist economy proposal
Read more: Aaron Benanav publishes the second article on his multi-criterial socialist economy proposalAaron Benanav, a professor at Cornell University, just published the article Beyond Capitalism—2, in issue 154 of the New Left Review. This article follows his recently published Beyond Capitalism—1. If the first part was mostly historical, this second part presents more elements of how a postcapitalist economic system should work. Here’s a paragraph from the article that…
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New book on workers’ self-management and worker-recuperated enterprises has been published
Read more: New book on workers’ self-management and worker-recuperated enterprises has been publishedMarxist sociologists Dario Azzellini and Marcelo Vieta have just published a book Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over with Routledge. After examining theories of workers’ self-management, the rest of the book analyses a contemporary example of this phenomenon in the form of worker-recuperated enterprises in Latin America, Europe and the rest…
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Financial Times article calls for macroeconomic planning to coordinate rapid decarbonisation
Read more: Financial Times article calls for macroeconomic planning to coordinate rapid decarbonisationIn this Financial Times article, Melanie Brusseler, US programme director of the think-tank Common Wealth, criticises the Inflation Reduction Act for failing to facilitate decarbonisation through subsidising the private sector due to supply chain snarls, interest rate increases and under-investment in the privately-controlled electricity transmission system. As an alternative, Brusseler argues that a combination of…
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French wide-audience book on ecological planning
Read more: French wide-audience book on ecological planningMathilde Viennot, an economist working at the Haut-Commissariat à la stratégie et au plan and co-founder of a think tank called the Institut Avant-Garde, just published a book entitled La planificaton écologique (Ecological planning). The book is published in the famous collection Repères of the La Découverte composed of short and accessible introductory books on…
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Climate change sheds new light on the socialist calculation debate
Read more: Climate change sheds new light on the socialist calculation debateLarry Alan Busk, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and Wabash College, has published an article entitled: Confronting Mises in a Warming World: The Calculation Debate and Climate Change. The article is published in the Review of Radical Political Economics and is behind a paywall. According to the author, in…
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New German Podcast Episode on Degrowth and Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: New German Podcast Episode on Degrowth and Democratic Economic PlanningIn the new episode of the German left-wing “Dissens” Podcast, Matthias Schmelzer talks about the current strategic debates within the climate movement, Degrowth and democratic economic planning. This episode is part of a series on planning, called “Was ist der Plan?”. The previous two episodes in the series are with Christoph Sorg, introducing the topic…
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Roger Arevalo uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Roger Arevalo uploadedThe recording of our recent INDEP online talk with Roger Arevalo has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. The recording can be found below or here.
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Talk on labour-time accounting by IDA with Mexican ruling party’s political education institute
Read more: Talk on labour-time accounting by IDA with Mexican ruling party’s political education instituteThe IDA (Initiative Democratic Labour-Time Accounting) recently did a talk with the Institute for Political Education of the Morena party that current leads the Mexican Government. In this talk, they presented the theory of labour-time accounting as well as the the labour-time accounting app that the IDA has developed in order to help cooperatives experiment…
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Behind the News podcast discusses democratic economic planning
Read more: Behind the News podcast discusses democratic economic planningIn this episode of the Behind the News podcast, host Doug Henwood interviews Aaron Benanav about his recent article for the New Left Review, where he outlines contemporary possibilities for a democratically planned economy. You can listen to the episode here.
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Article critically evaluates the book ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’
Read more: Article critically evaluates the book ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’In this article, the communist group AngryWorkers critically evaluate the merits and issues with the book ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution‘ with a focus on how it can inform efforts to construct a communist society through social revolution today. The book was published in 1930 by the council communist Group of International…
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Debunking Economics podcast discusses central planning
Read more: Debunking Economics podcast discusses central planningIn this episode of The Debunking Economics podcast, post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen and radio broadcaster Phil Dobbie discuss how governments can engage in central planning in a manner that ensures that resources are allocated effectively so that the rich aren’t favoured and the failures of the Soviet-type societies aren’t repeated. This episode is a sequel…
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