Category: Books

A new book has been published by Verso from Cecilia Rikap of the University College London. In the book, Rikap critiques the development of AI and cloud computing under contemporary capitalism and argues that technological development should be done in future through democratic economic planning. A summary of the book can be found below: A…

Recently, the book “Digital Solidarity. On Overcoming of Capitalist Technology” (original German title: “Digitale Solidarität. Zur Überwindung kapitalistischer Technologie) has been published in German by Dietz Berlin. The book has been written by applied economist Aline Blankertz and legal professional Malte Engeler, both of which are part of the collective “Structural Integrity“. The book also…

Recently the German translation of the book “Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond“, which was edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg has been published by the publisher Brumaire. The German translation has been split into two volumes, the first of which is already published. The second one will be published…

Kohei Saito‘s new book has been released in Japanese in April, titled “人新世の「黙示録」” (English: “The Apocalypse of the Anthropocene”), by the publisher Shueisha. You can find the Japanese version here. It has also been translated and published in German in June under the title “Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus” (English:…

The book Construire l’économie postcapialiste (Building a postcapitalist economy), written in French by Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, Frédéric Legault and Simon Tremblay-Pepin, has just been translated into Portuguese by the Brazilian publisher Lutas Anticapital. The translation is entitled Construir a economia pós-capitalista and is available in print on the publisher’s website. The book presents the most well-known…

Bloomsbury has published a book edited by Al Campbell of the University of Utah Beatriz Diaz of the University of Havana that examines the theory, history, practice and future of cooperatives in Cuba. A summary of the book can be found below: For almost 200 years advocates of socialism have argued about whether having cooperatives…

Manchester University Press has published the book Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a common urban future with Man by Oli Mould, Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. In the book, Mould critiques cities under capitalism and envisions how cities in a postcapitalist society could help solve the social, cultural, political, economic and ecological…

A Spanish translation of the book Economic Planning in an Age of Climate Crisis by William Paul Cockshott, Allin Cottrell and Jan Philipp Dapprich has been published by Trotta Editorial. A summary of the book’s arguments can be found below: This book is devoted to two topics that have been subject to pro- found political…

Economist Cedric Durand and sociologist Razmig Keucheyan got their book “Comment bifurquer: les principes de la planification écologique” (Switching gears: The principles of ecological planning) translated into German under the title “Das Prinzip Verzweigung – Über ökologische Planung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft” and published by Dietz Berlin. The book is centred on ecological planning and…

Jérôme Baschet and Laurent Jeanpierre have edited a collection of works by 80 authors in French, entitled Monde postcapitalistes (Postcapitalist Worlds), published by La Découverte. The book is massive, just over 900 pages, and is organized into twelve sections divided into many short entries. Some entries will have high interest for people working on democratic…

A new issue of Estudios, the journal published by the CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, an anarchist union in Spain), has been released. This issue, written in Spanish, is structured in three volumes—Revolutionary Unionism, Ecology, and Economic Planning—which can be acquired separately or together. One of these focuses on democratic economic planning and features contributions…