UNED Course: Democratic planning. Post-capitalist Models in the Era of the Climate Crisis. 2nd Edition
A new edition of a course from UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, an online university in Spain) explores democratic planning and post-capitalist models in the context of the climate crisis. It will be offered in Spanish from April 16th to April 30th. It can be attended in Person or taken online.
Part of the university’s extension programme, the course offers a space to engage with current debates on how to organize production and society beyond existing economic frameworks, bringing together different perspectives and approaches.
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Program (all times are in CEST/UTC+2)
Thursday, April, 16th 2026
18:00-20:00 h. 1st Session. Climate crisis versus planetary crisis.
Taught by Damián Herrera Cuesta
Friday, April, 17th 2026
18:00-20:00 h. 2nd Session. Introduction to Economic Planning from a self-managed perspective.
Introduction to the planning concept. Historical background.
– Ecologies of Planning Today: Democratic Planning in the Age of Planetary Crises. – Yousaf Nishat-Botero City
Taught by Endika Alabort Amundarain
Thursday, April, 23rd 2026
18:00-20:00 h. 3rd Session. Democratic economic planning: five models.
– Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of an autonomous society. – Pat Devine
– Democratic Economic Planning. – Robin Hahnel
– Economic planning in an era of climate crisis. – Jan Philipp Dapprich, W. Paul Cockshott, Allin Cottrell
– Systemic socialism: a model of models. – David Laibman
– Towards an inclusive democracy: the crisis of the growth economy and the need for a new liberating project. Takis
Taught by Darío Azzellini
Friday, April, 24th 2026
18:00-20:00 h. 4th Session. Problematizing the cooperative enterprise: A Marxist vision of organizational paradoxes.
– The concept of paradox according to the Critical Management Studies literature
– A Marxian review of the concept of organizational paradox
– The cooperative as a direct solidarity organization between producers of goods
– The paradoxical conscience of the commodity producer
– Solidarity strategies and competition of cooperatives
Thursday, April, 30th 2026
18:00-20:00 h. 5th Session and closure. Ecologies of planning from a libertarian perspective.
Taught by José Luis Carretero Miramar