Category: Articles

The IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) has published an article on the relationship between syndicalism and the IDA’s conception of labour-time accounting in Estudious, the theoretical journal of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo/National Confederation of Labour). A summary of the article can be found below: The…

Jacobin recently published an article by David Mandel on Yakov Kronrod’s Plan, which was supposed to reform the Economy of the USSR. David Mandel is is Professor of political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Amongst his publications is “Democracy, Plan, and Market: Yakov Kronrod’s Political Economy of Socialism“. You can read the…

Aaron Benanav and Ryan Lee of Cornell University have published a working paper on a microeconomic theory that could serve as the foundation for a new, multidimensional economics. More specifically, Benanav conceives of a new, multidimensional economics as being the theoretical foundation for his proposal for a multi-criterial socialism, which you can read about here,…

In an article for the newspaper der Freitag, Sebastian Bähr interviews Jan Groos about how public luxury could be organised under a system of democratic economic planning. A summary of the interview can be found below: For decades, the planned economy was considered a failure. Yet in the face of climate crisis, tech monopolies and…

The think-tank Autonomy has published a report by Aaron Benanav where he proposes a transition strategy that will result in the replacement of capitalism with multi-criterial socialism. A summary of the report can be found below: What would it take to organise an economy not around financial returns on capital invested, but rather the plurality…

The Green Planning Commission, an initiative of Common Wealth, has published a report by Common Wealth US Programme Director Melanie Brusseler arguing that private market coordination cannot deliver decarbonization or affordable essential provisions and that public coordination must be the organizing logic of the next progressive agenda and the premise of policy design. The report’s…

The 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…

In 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…

In 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…

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 &…

Emerging 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.…