A modest proposal for a transition to a moneyless economy

Emil Jacob published on his blog (usually centered on promoting the use of nuclear energy from a communist perspective) a post on how we could reach a moneyless economy in three steps. He starts from a few co-ops organized inside a capitalist society and shows how they could impel a transition towards a planned economy.

Here’s his summary of the post:

So, the point then is that a commodity, any commodity, can act as a ‘translation’ between labour time accounting and money. This is then the ‘interface’ with which we can communicate with the existing capitalist world, while building a communist one.

Realising this, the logic of how to build a communist movement (read: a proto-labour time accounting economy) unfolds itself. I’ve separated this into three phases. There might be more ways to achieve the same goal, and I’m open for this discussion, but this is my modest proposal, using worker cooperatives as a vehicle.

You can read the full post here: https://www.collectifission.nl/en/moving-from-here-to-there-a-modest-proposal-towards-a-moneyless-economy/