Attac Retrospective on conference “Paths towards Economic Democracy”

Attac Munich holds a monthly open meeting event that gives space to discuss events and hapennings of the month. This one will focus on the Attac conference “Paths towards Economic Democracy”, which was held on the 22nd of March in Munich. Guests included Alex Demirovic, Sabine Nuss, Aline Blankertz, Christoph Sorg, Emma Dowling and Michael W. Bader.

Here is the translated description of the conference:

“Due to the ecological and social crises of capitalism capitalism, we urgently need a profound change in our economic system: We need to set the social framework, not be dependent on private capital and profit-oriented investment decisions. Decide democratically on the criteria, measure and goal of prosperity. Cooperate instead of competing to death. Use scarce goods fairly and ecologically sustainably, setting priorities consciously and democratically, planning for the common good, produce and reproduce – frugally and mindfully instead of exploitative.  What can be left to a non-capitalist market and what not? And in what way could social planning work better today than in state-socialist times?”