Category: Articles
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IDA’s Criticism of Cockshott and Cottrell’s “Cybersocialism” translated into Chinese
New Chinese translation of IDA’s critique of Cybersocialism by Cockshott and Cottrell.
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ICEA translated IDA interview on Labor Time Accounting into Spanish
The ICEA (Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión) has recently translated this interview (which was originally in German) by the IDA (Initiative democratic labor time accounting) into Spanish. The translation can be found here.
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New article on hundred years of corporate planning
Hannah Bensussan, Cédric Durand and Cecilia Rikap published an article entitled: Hundred years of corporate planning. From industrial capitalism to intellectual monopoly capitalism through the lenses of the Harvard Business Review (1922–2021). The article is published open-access in the Socio-Economic Review. Both Durand and Rikap have published before on postcapitalist economic planning. So, even if…
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For a Democratic Society, Democratize Finance – Jacobin
A review by Grace Blakeley of The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It) by Michael A. McCarthy (Verso Books, 2025). Michael A McCarthy also participated in our recent online workshop on democratizing investment, the recording of which you can find here. Source: Jacobin Magazine Michael McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools opens with an…
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Article arguing for “Commonism” in German left-wing Newspaper
Recently Stefan Meretz and Simon Sutterlütti published an article in the german left-wing newspaper “junge Welt“. In the article they respond to a critique of the concepts of “commons” and “Commonism” by Meinhard Creydt, published in the same newspaper late last year and make their case for Commonism as a distributed form of democratic economic…
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New Report on Worker-led Innovation discussing the Lucas Plan and other examples by Jessica Thorne
How can workplaces benefit from innovation that is shaped by workers themselves? This report from Jessica Thorne for the Autonomy Institute, commissioned and published by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), argues that rather than relying on top-down managerial strategies, businesses should embrace worker-led innovation. Here’s a summary of the main points: • This report examines…
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IDA published article on labor time calculation in “express”, a newspaper on socialist union work
The Initiative democratic labor time calculation (IDA) has recently published an article explaining the basics of labor time calculation in the german newspaper “express“. Express is a newspaper focused on socialist union and workplace work. The full article can be read (in german) on the IDA’s website at this link.
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A defense of a modular approach to democratic economic planning
Simon Tremblay-Pepin, a professor at the Elisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation at Saint-Paul University and researcher in the research group on democratic planning of the CRITS, published a new logbook entry in French entitled “Why think of post-capitalism in terms of modules?“. The entry presents why a modular approach to democratic economic planning is preferable…
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New Journal Special Issue on Democratic Economic Planning
Recently a special issue on Democratic Economic Planning has been published by the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Here is a list of the included papers, which are all open access:
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Special issue “Rethinking Economic Planning” of “Competition & Change” Journal officially fully published
The special issue “Rethinking Economic Planning” of the Journal “Competition & Change” has recently officially been published in full. This issue is edited by Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos. The articles of the issue were published a while back, but so far only had indiviual links. Now they are all easily accesible under this one…
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Article in e-flux criticizing recent socialist and economic planning games
Recently an article by Max Grünberg has been published in the art magazine e-flux Journal. The article critiques the widespread “negation of ludic violence”, the competitive dimension amongst players, in cooperative political and recent economic planning games like “Soviet Republic: Workers & Resources” and the Half-Earth Socialism game. “Against the shallow utopianism of cooperative games,…
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Interview with IDA on labor time calculation in publication of an association of laywers for democracy and human rights
Recently the IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung) did an interview with the RAV (Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein) on their model of labor time calculation. This interview has been published in the “Utopia” issue of the “InfoBrief” publication of the RAV. The interview, which is in german, can be found here. The RAV is a political organization…