Category: Blog
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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 Laboratory at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, have recently been translated. Alexandra Alván and Rodrigo Ferradas have posted on the website Critical Theory Under Pressure:…
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The Participatory Economy model and the shortcomings of economic models
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.…
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Tomas Härdin responds to Robin Hahnel on Labor Time Accounting
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…
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A modest proposal for a transition to a moneyless economy
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.…
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New Blogpost on Computing Labour Values in 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…
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Income in a Post-Capitalist Society: Who Decides?
An 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 forming a fixed position on work or needs income now, but instead designing the institutional framework and processes which create the necessary conditions for citizens of the…
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Blogpost series on AI and economic planning in a post-growth context
On the german post-growth blog “Blog Postwachstum” a blogpost series by Leo Schlichter on the possible potential of AI for economic planning (in a specifically post-growth context) is in the process of being published. Two of three planned posts are already online. Find part 1 here and part 2 here. They are both in German.…
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Anarchist organization “Perspective Self-Management” has included labor time accounting in its program
The anarchist group “Perspektive Selbstverwaltung” proposes labor time accounting as a transitional step to abolish wage labor and money, valuing all work equally. INDEP member IDA supports this but suggests recording labor time long-term for societal oversight without linking it to consumption.
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PROKLA Review by the IDA – On the Planning Debate
IDA reviews the latest PROKLA issue on democratic planning, focusing on labor time calculation and key debates on socialization and planning.
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Article on Urban Commons as a Path Beyond Capitalism
Brief Description:This article discusses how urban commons provide an alternative to capitalist urbanization, focusing on Professor Stefan Gruber’s work with the Atlas of Commoning. It explores the role of architecture and urban design in fostering just, regenerative, and self-determined communities and how urban commons can challenge capitalist frameworks. Article Title:An Atlas for Urban Commons of…
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New Post on Tomas Härdin’s blog on In-kind Accounting
In order to effect control of any system we must first have data on that system. A planned economy, such as I’ve been writing about for the last few years, is synonymous with economic coordination in kind. For such coordination to not be completely arbitrary, to devolve into subjectivist nonsense, we must have accurate in-kind…
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A debate about the nature of Soviet planning on Cibcom
Cibcom has published an op-ed signed by Krasni Soldat that debates the translated version of Max Grünberg’s article published in Competition and Change. According to the author, following a thread he published on X to criticize Grünberg’s article, the editors at Cibcom asked him to turn his disagreement into an article. The op-ed, written in…