Category: Blog

A couple of months ago Herman Lueer published a critical review of Stefan Meretz’ and Simon Sutterlütti’s book “Kapitalismus Aufheben” (the English version “Make Capitalism History” can be found here). In the review he is very critical of fundamental aspects of the core idea of the book, the decentralized model of democratic economic planning “Commonism”…

A discussion has been sparked by Herman Lueer’s review of Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century”. The discussion revolves around questions of the what it means to abolish wage labor, labor-time accounting, socialist planning, and the economic foundations of an association of free and equal producers. You can find the full discussion in…

In a blog post for Verso, Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, who co-authored the book Half-Earth Socialism, talk to Zetkin Collective researcher Tatjana Söding about the development and repression of the climate movement, the rise of fascism and how Pendergrass and Vettese’s conception of Half-Earth Socialism is a form of scientific utopianism that seeks to…

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…