Category: News
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IDA’s Criticism of Cockshott and Cottrell’s “Cybersocialism” translated into Chinese
New Chinese translation of IDA’s critique of Cybersocialism by Cockshott and Cottrell.
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New PhD Thesis on Democratic Public Ownership
The PhD thesis of Thomas Matthew Hanna titled “Advancing the Concept of Democratic Public Ownership” has been published on the website of the University of Glasgow. Here’s the abstract of the thesis (highlighting done for this post): “This thesis examines and refines the concept of Democratic Public Ownership, which has emerged in both theory and…
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Newsletter by The New Institute about Kohei Saito’s work
The New Institute has recently published a newsletter giving an overview of Kohei Saito’s work and providing some insights into Saito’s project there, where he chairs the program “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Economic Planning.” To quote from the newsletter: “If we want to avoid destroying the planet, he says, we must gear up for…
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Slides of Walther Zeug’s INDEP talk now online
Walther Zeug has shared his slides of his recent talk for INDEP on Democratic Economic Planning through Cybernetics & Holistic Accounting, the recording of which you can find here. You can have a look at the slides above or download them.
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New video on labour time accounting app by IDA
A new video explains how to use the labour time app, which allows self-managed companies to network in a planned economy without exploitation.
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Experiment with Democratic Planning in Dissent on Mars
Michael Hicks, an independent video game designer has developed a sci-fi life sim where you create post-capitalist societies on Mars and live in them. Dissent on Mars will be available on Steam from April 7th. One of the economic systems you can choose is democratic planning, which is heavily inspired by participatory planning, the allocation…
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IDA sends out “Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution” + Reading Guide (in German)
The IDA (Iniative democratic labor time calculation) just accounced that it is happy to send out packs of the German version of the “Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution” by the Group of International Communists from 1930 and a respective reading guide. The set will be very cheap or maybe even free – just…
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ICEA (El Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión) new INDEP Partner Organisation
We’re happy to have recently partnered with the ICEA (El Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión). The ICEA is an association that carries out research and dissemination work on workers’ self-management, with the aim of moving towards a post-capitalist society. It’s made up of economists, sociologists, historians and social activists. To learn more…
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IDA now has an office in Berlin + call for donations
Starting March 1st, the IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung / “Initiative democratic labor time calculation”) has rented an office in the publishing building of the left wing newspaper “nd (Neues Deutschland)” in Berlin. The monthly costs of the rent are about 400€ and the IDA put out a call for donations to help support them to…
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CfP extended until March 3rd – Conference by the European Culture and Technology Laboratory with Cybernetic Economic Planning included as topic
(This is a revised version of a previously published news item because the deadline for submissions has been extended.) The European Culture and Technology Laboratory (ECT Lab+) is organizing a conference on “Knowledge in the Age of Digital Re-/Production: Responsible Epistemologies?” on the 4th and 5th June in Darmstadt, Germany. The CfP can be found…
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Time updated for INDEP online Workshop on Democratizing Investment
The time for our online workshop on “Democratizing Investment” has been updated. The old time was from 3pm-7pm CET on Friday the 21st, with which it was unfortunately also promoted in our last newsletter. The updated time is 3:30pm-6:15pm CET – the day stays the same, so it’s only a small update and the new…
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New Report on Worker-led Innovation discussing the Lucas Plan and other examples by Jessica Thorne
How can workplaces benefit from innovation that is shaped by workers themselves? This report from Jessica Thorne for the Autonomy Institute, commissioned and published by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), argues that rather than relying on top-down managerial strategies, businesses should embrace worker-led innovation. Here’s a summary of the main points: • This report examines…