Category: Blog

On his blog, Doğuhan Sündal of California State University, San Bernardino critiques an article in Jacobin by Vivek Chibber of New York University where Chibber critiques the theory and practice of central planning and argues for market socialism. You can read Chibber’s article here while you can read Sündal’s critique here.

Raphael 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 also includes textcommentary for most artworks. Below is a list of the individual documentation pages: For further documentation of Raphael’s art see here.

In 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 and Philip Euteneuer in the same blog, and their specific conflicts of interest. While she focusses on planning on the micro-level, she also addresses conflicting…

The 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 of climate change. The group hosted a total of five events with different guests such as Samia Mohammed, Walther Zeug, Heide Lutosch and Jan Groos.…

Hermann 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 – NOT an infantile disorder. In this review he comments on Bernes’ engagement with The Fundamental Principles of Communist Distribution and Production by the Group…

Walther 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 reflection on the conference he published a post on his LinkedIn account, arguing that Absolute Sustainability Assessments (in contrast to conventional Life Cycle Assessments) has…

The 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 a document published in 1930 by the Dutch Group of International Communists on the Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution. The article discusses mechanisms…

An 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 a real-world modern complex economy. People certainly have a right to be sceptical of non-capitalist alternative economic visions and models in light of twentieth-century history.…

One 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…

Emil 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 three steps. He starts from a few co-ops organized inside a capitalist society and shows how they could impel a transition towards a planned economy.…

Giovanni 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 labour values in general, computing labour values, the problem of scale in this context and compares approximate and exact solution methods for this problem. You…