Category: Articles

In this article for The Ideas Letter, Evgeny Morozov argues that recent developments in artificial intelligence necessitate a theoretical re-working of socialism so that any future socialism will actually transcend capitalism while also addressing the issues raised by AI. A Spanish version of the article has also been published in the Spanish edition of Jacobin.…

IDA responds to Robin Hahnel’s May 2025 critique of labor-time calculation, argueing that it remains the cornerstone of the growing debate on democratic, decentralized socialist planning.

In this article for the journal Globalizations, co-authors Pedro H. J. Nardelli and Rodrigo Santaella-Goncalves of LUT University critique market-based approaches to a green-digital transition for being based on an ecocidal capitalist system and propose that a green-digital transition can be most effectively implemented through cyber-physical commons-based decentralized planning. A summary of the article can…

Matthias Schmelzer, professor for social-ecological transformation at the University of Flensburg and Elena Hofferberth, post-doc researcher at the University of Lausanne argue in this Special Issue on Utopias, published by the HEC Research Center for Grand Challenges at the University of Lausanne for democratic coordination of economic activity for a profound and fast social-ecological transformation…

In this article from Cibcom, Alan Ernesto Segura Pérez deploys Marxist critiques of capitalism and reflections on the Soviet-type societies to argue that the fundamental principles of the communist mode of production in the 21st century and beyond are democratic planning and collective management of the industrial economy. You can read the article, which is…

This article by Hermann Lueer responds to the ‘Thoughts on the Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’ by Angry Workers. It argues that many of their critical remarks regarding the ‘Fundamental Principles‘ are based on a misunderstanding of the text, its subject matter and the context in which it was published. By addressing these…

Aaron Benanav, a professor at Cornell University, just published the article Beyond Capitalism—2, in issue 154 of the New Left Review. This article follows his recently published Beyond Capitalism—1. If the first part was mostly historical, this second part presents more elements of how a postcapitalist economic system should work. Here’s a paragraph from the article that…

In this Financial Times article, Melanie Brusseler, US programme director of the think-tank Common Wealth, criticises the Inflation Reduction Act for failing to facilitate decarbonisation through subsidising the private sector due to supply chain snarls, interest rate increases and under-investment in the privately-controlled electricity transmission system. As an alternative, Brusseler argues that a combination of…

Larry Alan Busk,  a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University and Wabash College, has published an article entitled: Confronting Mises in a Warming World: The Calculation Debate and Climate Change. The article is published in the Review of Radical Political Economics and is behind a paywall. According to the author, in…

In this article, the communist group AngryWorkers critically evaluate the merits and issues with the book ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution‘ with a focus on how it can inform efforts to construct a communist society through social revolution today. The book was published in 1930 by the council communist Group of International…