Category: Blog
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Documentation for Raphael Arar’s Exhibition ‘Planning’ uploaded
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in BlogRaphael Arar has uploaded photo- and videodocumentation of the artworks included in his exhibition ‘Planning’, which was taking place at Carnation Contemporary in Portland, Oregon late last year. The documentation […]
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German Trade Unionist Comments Different Planning Approaches in a Blogpost
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in BlogIn the German post-growth blog Postwachstum.de, long-standing trade union executive member Franziska Wiethold comments on different approaches of democratic planning, that were introduced in an earlier article by Matthias Kasper […]
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Reflections on an event series on democratic economic planning
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in BlogThe anarcho-communist group La Banda Vaga from Freiburg, Germany, hosted a series of events earlier this year to promote and discuss ideas of democratic economic planning to meet the challenges […]
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Article responding to criticism by Jasper Bernes of the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’
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in BlogHermann Lueer recently published a review on Jasper Bernes’ book The Future of Revolution. Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising on the blog Left Wing Communism […]
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Walther Zeug LinkedIn Post on why Absolute Sustainability Assessment Means Democratic Economic Planning
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in BlogWalther Zeug recently attended the 1st International Conference on Absolute Sustainability – “From Less Bad to Good Enough”, hosted by the Centre for Absolute Sustainability at DTU Sustain. As a […]
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New article by La Banda Vaga on the fundamental principles of democratic economic planning and distribution
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in BlogThe anarchist and council communist group La Banda Vaga writes about the fundamental principles of democratic economic planning. Their new article in the German post-growth blog Postwachstum.de is based on […]
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Two chapters on democratic economic planning by Martín Arboleda newly translated
Two chapters of the book Gobernar la utopía. Sobre planificación y el poder popular by Martín Arboleda, associate professor of the School of Sociology and Director of the Social Transformations […]
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The Participatory Economy model and the shortcomings of economic models
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in BlogAn article by Anders Sandström from the Participatory Economy Project arguing for the need to bridge the sometimes considerable gaps between our preferred abstract economic models and the reality of […]
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Tomas Härdin responds to Robin Hahnel on Labor Time Accounting
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in BlogOne thing that I believe Hahnel is trying to say is that disaggregation of labour power for the purposes of planning has not been sufficiently theorized. On this I agree. Cockshott has argued that planning must be carried out in as disaggregated a manner as possible. But unless I’ve missed something, Cockshott still talks only…
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A modest proposal for a transition to a moneyless economy
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in BlogEmil Jacob published on his blog (usually centered on promoting the use of nuclear energy from a communist perspective) a post on how we could reach a moneyless economy in […]
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New Blogpost on Computing Labour Values in a Planned Economy
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in BlogGiovanni Paiela has recently published a post on his medium blog called “Computation of labour values in a socialist planned economy“. The post touches on the topics of planning and […]
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Income in a Post-Capitalist Society: Who Decides?
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in BlogAn article by Jason Chrysostomou from the Participatory Economy Project on how income would be decided in a Participatory Economy. The more valuable activity in visioning post-capitalism is not on […]