INDEP online Talk with David Laibman – Systemic Socialism – Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC)

This event will take place in English.

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Socialism is a movement for the most revolutionary and humane values now conceivable.  But it is also a system, with an operational core that transcends capitalism and class-antagonistic society in general.  That core ― MDIC ― unites central with local planning, and quantitative with qualitative/political evaluation and decision-making.  A crucial relation between plan and result ― here called the Collective Morale Function ― evolves, as socialist tech and social relations mature.  This evolution enables progressive unification of macro coordination with local incentives and participation, thus fulfilling, by stages, the age-old dream of “the working class in power.”

David Laibman is Prof. (Emeritus) of Economics at the City University of New York and Editor (Emeritus) of Science & Society