Category: Articles

In an article for the Financial Times, FT’s European economics commentator Martin Sandbu argues that recent developments in artificial intelligence overturn the assumptions of the socialist calculation debate and make a socialist economy possible in the 21st century. An extract from the article can be found below In all the speculation about what future artificial…

This paper by Gabriel Kahan was recently published in the academic journal Competition & Change. It examines how the state tries to influence private capital’s decarbonisation through green investment subsidies. To explore this, the paper examines two green subsidies in France, both aimed at decarbonising some of the country’s highest-emitting industrial sites.By attaching conditions to…

In the website for Jacobin Magazine, Jonas Elvander of the Swedish magazine Flamman has interviewed Aaron Benanav of Cornell University about Benanav’s proposal for a multi-criterial socialism. A summary of the article can be found below: Karl Marx’s anti-utopian line is often used to avoid discussion about what socialism would be like. But engaging in…

In an article for the Participatory Economy Project website, Antti Jauhiainen critically evaluates the merits and issues with local currencies and argues that a participatory economy is an alternative way to transform the economy. A summary of the article can be found below: Why Alternatives Matter The culture of capitalism runs deep in 21st century…

In an article in the journal New Political Economy, Christoph Sorg of Humboldt University Berlin and Irina Herb of Friedrich Schiller University Jena argue that there is a lack of theorising alternatives to capitalist forms of social reproduction and explores how social reproduction could be organised through democratic economic planning. A summary of the article…

The debate on Commonism and labour-time calculation continues with the publication of IDA’s (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Labour-Time Accounting) latest contribution, “The Absence of Mediation as Mediation?”, alongside Hermann Lueer’s critique, “Needs Without Measure? On Meretz’s Concept of Social Mediation.” Both texts respond to Stefan Meretz’s recent article, “The Problem of mediation”. IDA’s article…

In an article for Geese Magazine, Nabi Eullmann critiques how science is organized under capitalism and envisions how it could be organized under communism through an critical exploration of the Group of International Communists’ (GIK) book Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution. A summary of the article can be found below: The desolate landscape…

On the website Leftdis, council communist writer Herman Lueer responds to Stefan Meretz’s critique of Lueer’s article about the post-capitalist model of Commonism that Meretz co-created with Simon Sutterlütti. A summary of the article can be found below: The following article by Hermann Lueer is part of the debate surrounding Stefan Meretz’s and Simon Sutterlütti’s…

Barbara 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…

The 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…

The 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:…

The 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…