Category: Videos

The recording of our recent INDEP online talk with Cecilia Rikap and Edemilson Paraná has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.

In this episode of the From Alpha to Omega podcast, host Tom O’Brien answers audience questions on the recent talk he gave to the Complex Anarchism Symposium entitled ‘Unifying Marxism and Cybernetics‘. You can watch the episode here.

In this recent interview on Novara Media, Aaron Bastani gets into conversation with Jason Hickel, political economist and degrowth advocate from Britain. Among several other topics, Hickel points out why democratic planning of our economies is essential to regain control over society’s productive capacities to mitigate the escalating ecological and social crises while also meeting…

The recording of our recent INDEP online talk with Roger Arevalo has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. The recording can be found below or here.

The IDA (Initiative Democratic Labour-Time Accounting) recently did a talk with the Institute for Political Education of the Morena party that current leads the Mexican Government. In this talk, they presented the theory of labour-time accounting as well as the the labour-time accounting app that the IDA has developed in order to help cooperatives experiment…

The IDA (Initiative Democratic Labour-Time Accounting) has recently organized a talk with Helge Döhring from the german Institute for Syndicalist Research on the topic of anarcho-syndicalist economy. The talk (in German) can be found here or below:

The recording of the INDEP online retrospective event on our first conference has been uploaded to our YouTube channel. The recordings of the conference itself can be found here. You can find the video here or below.

In this talk for the Complex Anarchism Symposium, Tom O’Brien of the From Alpha to Omega podcast presents some research from the book The Classless Society in Motion: A New Theory of Socialist Economy that Tom is co-authoring with Donal Ó Coisdealbha that will be about socialist political economy and planning, where they unify the…

Kali Akuno, Co-founder and Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson, a network of worker-coops in Jackson, Mississippi, has recently interviewed Raphael Arar in a livestream about Social Digital Commons and Democratic Economic Planning. The livestream was part of Cooperation Jackson’s #BuildAndFight Formula series, a multi-part edicational series. You can find other videos of the series on…

Simon Sutterlütti has recently published a video analysing the failure of historical socialism. His fundamental critique is that it failed because it was still based on wage-labor and good were not distributed based on need. He concludes by making a case for a model tha avoids this mistake, called “Commonism” (for a short breakdown, see…

The recording of the INDEP online talk with Michael Hicks on his new game “Dissent on Mars” and simulating postcapitalist economies has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it via this link or below.

The recording of the INDEP online talk with Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin on Rethinking Expertise in Democratic Economic Planning has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch the video via this link or below.