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Verso Blog Post Discusses the Climate Movement, Utopianism and Half-Earth Socialism
Read more: Verso Blog Post Discusses the Climate Movement, Utopianism and Half-Earth SocialismIn a blog post for Verso, Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, who co-authored the book Half-Earth Socialism, talk to Zetkin Collective researcher Tatjana Söding about the development and repression of the climate movement, the rise of fascism and how Pendergrass and Vettese’s conception of Half-Earth Socialism is a form of scientific utopianism that seeks to…
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Wide-Ranging Response to Kohei Saito’s New Book in German-Speaking Media (ongoing)
Read more: Wide-Ranging Response to Kohei Saito’s New Book in German-Speaking Media (ongoing)Following the publication of the German translation of Kohei Saito’s new book “Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus”, the response in German-speaking media has been very wide-ranging and is ongoing. For this reason, we are compiling this list of articles, interviews, videos, etc., which otherwise would have been individual news items.…
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Article Discusses How Public Goods Are Supplied In A Participatory Economy
Read more: Article Discusses How Public Goods Are Supplied In A Participatory EconomyOn the website of the Participatory Economy Project, one of INDEP’s partner organisations, economist and co-creator of the Participatory Economy model Robin Hahnel has published an article analysing why market economies under-supply public goods and detailing how public goods would be supplied in a participatory economy. The article can be read here.
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Op-Ed in Newspaper “Le Monde” on Economic Planning in France
Read more: Op-Ed in Newspaper “Le Monde” on Economic Planning in FranceAn Op-Ed by Antoine Jourdan, Eric Monnet and Laurent Warlouzet has recently been published in the French newspaper “Le Monde“. For the 80th anniversary of the creation of the french “Commissariat général au plan” (CGP) (General Planning Commission), they reflect on the history and and future of French economic planning. They highlight that planning will…
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Concept Paper on the Socialization of the German Healthcare Sector Published
Read more: Concept Paper on the Socialization of the German Healthcare Sector PublishedThe German think tank communia and german initiative Poliklink Syndikat have published a concept paper on the socializaton of the health care sector in Germany. Below you can read more about the paper (translated from the original German website). You can read the concept paper in German here. “A new concept paper by communia and…
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Interview with INDEP Co-Founder Eric Meier for the “World on the Brink” Podcast
Read more: Interview with INDEP Co-Founder Eric Meier for the “World on the Brink” PodcastRecently Hugo Pompougnac, president of the think tank Espaces Marx, has interview INDEP co-founder Eric Meier for the first episode of the podcast “World on the Brink”, which is hosted by Espaces Marx. In the interview they talked about INDEP itself, the involved partner organisations and members, the current state of the discourse on democratic…
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Interview with INDEP Co-Founders in Oikos Magazine
Read more: Interview with INDEP Co-Founders in Oikos MagazineSimon Tremblay-Pepin and Eric Meier, two of INDEP’s co-founders, were interviewed by INDEP member Michael Mietz for the Oikos magazine of the Brussels-based think tank of the same name. In the interview they discussed democratic economic planning, causes of its revival and their work with INDEP. The interview was conducted in English and translated to…
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1st Volume of German Translation of “Creative Construction” Book published
Read more: 1st Volume of German Translation of “Creative Construction” Book publishedRecently the German translation of the book “Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond“, which was edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg has been published by the publisher Brumaire. The German translation has been split into two volumes, the first of which is already published. The second one will be published…
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New Kohei Saito book published in Japanese and German
Read more: New Kohei Saito book published in Japanese and GermanKohei Saito‘s new book has been released in Japanese in April, titled “人新世の「黙示録」” (English: “The Apocalypse of the Anthropocene”), by the publisher Shueisha. You can find the Japanese version here. It has also been translated and published in German in June under the title “Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus” (English:…
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LBO News Podcast Interviews Aaron Benanav About The Transition To Multi-Criterial Socialism
Read more: LBO News Podcast Interviews Aaron Benanav About The Transition To Multi-Criterial SocialismIn this episode of the LBO News podcast, Doug Henwood interviews Aaron Benanav about his report published by the Autonomy think-tank that outlines his proposed transition strategy to realise a multi-criterial socialist economy. You can listen to the interview here, while you can read Benanav’s report for Autonomy here.
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Aaron Benanav Interviewed By Flamman Magazine About Multi-Criterial Socialism
Read more: Aaron Benanav Interviewed By Flamman Magazine About Multi-Criterial SocialismFlamman/The Flame, a Swedish socialist weekly magazine, has interviewed Aaron Benanav about his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy that he published in New Left Review. You can read the interview (in Swedish) here, while you can read Benanav’s proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy here, here and here.
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Future Histories Podcast Publishes Recording Of Creative Construction And The Struggle over Progress Event
Read more: Future Histories Podcast Publishes Recording Of Creative Construction And The Struggle over Progress EventThe Future Histories podcast has published a recording of the event Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress that happened on Thursday 11th June from 7PM-9PM UTC+2 at the Thalia Theater. At the event, Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos discussed how democratic economic planning can be the solution to the social, economic and…
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