INDEP online Talk with Al Campbell on Protagonistic Planned Socialism (PROPLASO) and Human Development

Social discontent with the existing world capitalist system is high and increasing. Many people look for major reforms of the capitalist system (some progressive, quite a few reactionary). A major part of those who to the contrary think capitalism must be replaced with an alternative system, consider themselves in favor of some type of socialism or communism. The ideas about what constitutes socialism or communism vary greatly, with some general consensus on some core ideas and a broad spectrum of different ideas about other issues (hence the need for ongoing social discussions and experiments concerning these).
In this talk Al Campbell will very briefly discuss 1) the question of why society should replace capitalism, 2) the historical relation of pre-figurative visions of alternative systems to what exists to the development of such alternatives, 3) the Goldilocks dilemma for visions of an alternative society from the point of human development, 4) the DPS (Democratic Planned Socialism) family of vision (and its importance as a family), and 5) the three pillars of PROPLASO (Protagonistic Planned Socialism). At least the following six issues about which there is much ongoing discussions and debates among advocates of socialism will be discussed in the course of discussing the above 5 points – a) capitalist exploitation without wage labor, b) the nature of wages in a socialist system, c) consumer councils, d) the possibility of simple commodity production and producers in a socialist system, e) the possibility of required socialist planning if the system has markets, and f) money in a socialist system (and beyond that, whatever else hopefully comes up in the questions).

This event will be in English.

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