Category: Articles

The IDA (Initiative for Democratic Labour Time Accounting) has posted an article critically reviewing the 2018 book “Kapitalismus Aufheben” (“Sublating Capitalism”, an English edition of which was published) by Simon Sutterlütti and Stefan Meretz. In the book, Sutterlütti and Meretz develop their proposal for “Commonism”, a post-capitalist society in which commons sustain production and distribution,…

The IDA (Initiative for Democratic Labour Time Accounting) has translated several of its texts into English and Spanish. These include Felix Klopotek’s article “Future State, Socialization, Labour-Time Accounting“, a travel report on time banks in Spain, and various contributions to the ongoing debate on planned economies. In their updated publication list, the IDA provides access…

The IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) has published an article announcing that their working time calculation app has been renamed so that it’s now called Workers Control. A summary of the article can be found below: We have renamed our working time calculation app – from now on it is called…

The High-Level Expert Committee on Democracy at Work, convened by the Vice President and Minister of Labor of Spain, Yolanda Díaz, and the Secretary of State for Employment, Joaquín Perez Rey in February 2025, published a report in February 2026 that outlines how Spain is in the midst of an economic and ecological crisis, how…

In a letter to the website Cosmonaut, Amelia Davenport responds to Lea Firmiani’s critique of the article “Modern Industry and Prospects for Socialism” by Dónal Ó Coisdealbha through outlining how Stafford Beer’s management cybernetics as well as Soviet cybernetics can contribute to ensuring that 21st century attempts at economic planning don’t reproduce the issues with…

The large German newspaper “Die Zeit” has published an article on the revival of the debate around democratic economic planning. The article article touches on a variety of topics and contributions related to this debate, focusing especially of questions of economic calculation and questions of possible applications of AI for economic planning. The most notable…

Evgeny Morozov‘s article “Socialism after AI,” which recently sparked a debate, has been translated into French by the radical green magazine Terrestres. The text is prefaced by a short, unsigned and stern critique centred on the argument that “Morozov fails to mention the active role played by AI advocates in ecocide, as well as the…

La Pensée, an old and reputable French journal, has dedicated a section of its latest issue to AI. In this section, an article by Pierre Khalfa, “La planification à l’épreuve de l’IA” (Planning after AI), directly addresses democratic economic planning issues and the literature on them. A second author, Hannah Bensussan, who is already involved in…

The IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) has published an article that discusses the newest iteration of their working time digital app and how it can be used. A summary of the article can be found below: We’ve noticed that it’s not always very easy to use our app. That’s why we…

In a letter to the website Cosmonaut, Lea Firmiani critiques the article “Modern Industry and Prospects for Socialism” by Dónal Ó Coisdealbha by arguing that there are major problems with scaling forms of cybernetic management such as the Toyota Production System to large-scale economic planning. You can read Dónal’s article here, while you can read…

The IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) has published an article that links several German-language articles that which discuss the topic of democratic economic planning. A summary of the article can be found below: The debate about a socialist planned economy seems to have definitively returned. Here, we present a small, selective…

In the journal marxism & sciences, Ivan Bouchardeau of Toulouse Jean Jaurès University has published an article which argues that cybernetics and Marxism cannot be synthesised, that Project Cybersyn in Chile from 1971-1973 was a technocratic and idealist project and that in order for socialist planning today to be feasible, it must be grounded in…