On the website Leftdis, council communist writer Herman Lueer responds to Stefan Meretz’s critique of Lueer’s article about the post-capitalist model of Commonism that Meretz co-created with Simon Sutterlütti.
A summary of the article can be found below:
The following article by Hermann Lueer is part of the debate surrounding Stefan Meretz’s and Simon Sutterlütti’s book Make Capitalism History. The discussion began with a critical review of the book, to which Stefan Meretz responded with a rebuttal. The Initiative for Democratic Labor-Time Accounting (IDA), in turn, responded to this rebuttal with an article of its own.
The text documented here is intended as an additional contribution to this discussion. It focuses on a central point of contention in the debate: the relationship between needs, use values, social labor, and conscious mediation. In particular, it examines whether Meretz’s objection to the accounting of labor time actually addresses the concept itself, or whether it is based on a distorted equating of labor-time accounting with the form of value, wage labor, and abstract quantification.
You can read Lueer’s article in English here and in German here. You can read Lueer’s original critique of Commonism in English here and in German here, Stefan Meretz’s response in English here and in German here and the Initiative for Democratic Labor-Time Accounting’s rebuttal to Meretz’s article in English here and in German here.