Category: Articles

In the journal Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, Mathieu Dufour of Université du Québec en Outaouais and Simon Tremblay-Pepin of Saint Paul University have published an article that argues that the postcapitalist model of Commonism‘s lack of use of money leads to it suffering multiple economic issues and that including a form of money would…

In the journal Globalizations, Cédric Durand of the University of Geneva has published an article that utilises an analysis of green finance and the Anthropocene to criticise Friedrich Hayek’s knowledge problem for socialist planning and outline how socialist planning could be feasible in the 21st century. A summary of the article (from the abstract) can…

In the journal Antipode, Giulia Dal Maso of Ca’Foscari University and independent researcher Alessandro Maresca have published an article that argues that their analysis of green finance demonstrates that it uses forms of algorithmic planning and that such forms could be repurposed to serve socialist ends. A summary of the article (from the abstract) can…

Pelle Dragsted, member of parliament for the Danish Red-Green Alliance, Marxist thinker and author from Denmark, recently published an essay for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation titled ‘Nordic Socialism Shows the Way to a Democratic Economy’. In the essay, Dragsted highlights elements of democratic planning in the economies of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland and calls…

In early January 2026, the Slovenian Institute for Economic Democracy published an article by Dr Tej Gonza, Dr David Ellerman, Kosta Juri, Gregor Berkopec and Tilen Božič that discusses the Employee Ownership Cooperative Act. The Act, which was passed in October 2025 by the Slovenian government, aims to facilitate the conversion of private businesses into…

How can private reproductive labor be socialized under socialism? The text analyzes the political, cultural, and structural particularities of private reproductive labor and shows how labor-time calculation could serve as a tool to recognize it economically and, consequently, politically.

In this paper, independent Jim Farmelant argues that the views of economist Ronald Coase of his youth when he was a socialist and his early economic writings, when combined with Marxian economics, can provide new insights when applied to contemporary debates on socialist planning. A summary of the paper can be found below: Ronald Coase…

In this recent article Hermann Lueer, situates the book ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution‘, which was written by German council communist Jan Appel in order to outline how a communist mode of production would be organised, in its historical context. A summary of the article can be found below: “One hundred years…

In this new article in the german newspaper ‘nd,’ Raul Zelik writes about Aaron Benanav‘s recent proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy and its theoretical foundations and institutional details. You can read the article here (in German). You can read Aaron Benanav’s two papers outlining his proposal for a multi-criterial socialist economy here and here.

In this article for the journal Ecological Economics, Oussama Chaabouni of the University of Girona and Richard Bärnthaler of the University of Leeds review the literature on transformative adaptation and argue that it falls short of its transformative aims, with them also arguing that integrating both post-growth economics and democratic economic planning into transformative adaptation…

In this article for the Marxist journal Science and Society, David Laibman, the journal’s editor, reviews the book Creative Construction: Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. In this article, Laibman first summarises some of the book’s contents in order to entice people to read the book. Then, Laibman critically assesses some of the…

The IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung) has published a proposed solution to calculating the payout factor or “Factor of Individual Comsumption” (FIC) calculated when there are different planning cycles in an economy. They will implement their proposed solution in their labor time accounting app. They welcome feedback, which you can send them here. You can download…