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IDA Article Responds To Hermann Lueer’s Critique of IDA Article on Socializing Private Reproductive Labour
Read more: IDA Article Responds To Hermann Lueer’s Critique of IDA Article on Socializing Private Reproductive LabourThe IDA (Initiative for Democratic Labour Time Accounting) has posted an article responding to Hermann Lueer’s critique of the IDA’s article on how private reproductive labour can be socialized in a communist society. A summary of the response can be found below: Around eight weeks ago, Hermann Lueer published a critique of our text on…
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Book By Oli Mould Envisions Postcapitalist Cities
Read more: Book By Oli Mould Envisions Postcapitalist CitiesManchester University Press has published the book Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a common urban future with Man by Oli Mould, Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. In the book, Mould critiques cities under capitalism and envisions how cities in a postcapitalist society could help solve the social, cultural, political, economic and ecological…
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Spanish Translation Of Economic Planning In An Age Of Climate Crisis Published
Read more: Spanish Translation Of Economic Planning In An Age Of Climate Crisis PublishedA Spanish translation of the book Economic Planning in an Age of Climate Crisis by William Paul Cockshott, Allin Cottrell and Jan Philipp Dapprich has been published by Trotta Editorial. A summary of the book’s arguments can be found below: This book is devoted to two topics that have been subject to pro- found political…
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Catarsi Article Argues That Democracy And Economic Planning Need Each Other
Read more: Catarsi Article Argues That Democracy And Economic Planning Need Each OtherIn an article for the magazine Catarsi, Cibcom collective members Guillem Murcia and Sergio Salas Nicás analyse the history of democracy and socialism and then argue on the basis of these histories that a democratisation of society requires economic planning and that an economic planning that meets people’s needs in an ecologically sustainable manner needs…
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Cibcom Article Reviews Factory Physics
Read more: Cibcom Article Reviews Factory PhysicsIn an article for the website of the Cibcom collective, Alan Ernesto Segura Pérez reviews the book Factory Physics by Wallace J. Hopp and Mark L. Spearman, which is about different management approaches in the manufacturing industry. More specifically, Pérez’s review of the book focuses on what lessons that the book can provide for future…
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Call For Papers for Special Issue of Organization: The (Re)turn to Marx
Read more: Call For Papers for Special Issue of Organization: The (Re)turn to MarxThe journal Organization has released a call for papers on new readings of Marx and the future of organization. As this topic is quite broad, it is seeking papers that cover this topic on the basis of multiple themes, including post-capitalism and democratic economic planning. The deadline to submit a paper is Thursday 1st April…
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Hermann Lueer reviews German Translation of Peter Hudis’ “Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism”
Read more: 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 &…
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11 Theses on Planning Published
Read more: 11 Theses on Planning PublishedEmerging 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 Degen. The theses cover the following topics:1. Planning for Future2. Algorithmic Planning3. Without Models4. Knowledge, Rationality, Planning5.…
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Recording of the Colloquium Planning the Social and Ecological Transformation Uploaded
Read more: Recording of the Colloquium Planning the Social and Ecological Transformation UploadedThe 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 were in French, except the penultimate one, which was in English. 01:11 : Welcome – Augustin Fragnière,…
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Call for Papers: Ecological Planning and its Funding Constraint
Read more: Call for Papers: Ecological Planning and its Funding ConstraintJune 16 to 17, a workshop in French entitled La planification écologique face à la contrainte de son financement: penser la planification financière écologique (Ecological Planning in the Face of Funding Constraints: Rethinking Ecological Financial Planning) will be held at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Montpellier. The organizers, Nicolas Bédu, Léo Malherbe,…
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Letter To Proletären Argues For Ecosocialist Planning
Read more: Letter To Proletären Argues For Ecosocialist PlanningProletären, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Sweden (K), has published a letter by Tomas Härdin arguing that the only way to solve the climate crisis is through instituting a global planned economy. A summary of the letter can be found below: This is a letter I wrote to Proletären, the newspaper of the…
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INDEP’s New Organisational Partnership with Espaces Marx
Read more: INDEP’s New Organisational Partnership with Espaces MarxWe are excited to announce our new organisational partnership between INDEP and the Espaces Marx in France. Espaces Marx (formerly the Institute for Marxist Research) is an association dedicated to critical thinking, education, and intellectual production, rooted in the critical and emancipatory tradition of Marxism. Its goal is to conduct in-depth analyses of the social,…
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