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SUMMARY:UNED Course: Democratic planning. Post-capitalist Models in the Era of the Climate Crisis. 2nd Edition
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPart 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. \nFor more info\, click here. \nProgram (all times are in CEST/UTC+2)\nThursday\, April\, 16th 2026\n18:00-20:00 h. 1st Session. Climate crisis versus planetary crisis. \nThe physical foundations of climate change. Crisis\, collapse\, transitions.\nTaught by Damián Herrera Cuesta \n  \nFriday\, April\, 17th 2026\n18:00-20:00 h.  2nd Session. Introduction to Economic Planning from a self-managed perspective.  \n\nIntroduction to the planning concept. Historical background. \n– Ecologies of Planning Today: Democratic Planning in the Age of Planetary Crises. – Yousaf Nishat-Botero City \nTaught by Endika Alabort Amundarain \n  \nThursday\, April\, 23rd 2026\n18:00-20:00 h. 3rd Session. Democratic economic planning: five models. \n\n– Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of an autonomous society. – Pat Devine \n– Democratic Economic Planning. – Robin Hahnel \n– Economic planning in an era of climate crisis. – Jan Philipp Dapprich\, W. Paul Cockshott\, Allin Cottrell \n– Systemic socialism: a model of models. – David Laibman \n– Towards an inclusive democracy: the crisis of the growth economy and the need for a new liberating project. Takis \nTaught by Darío Azzellini \n  \n\nFriday\, April\, 24th 2026\n18:00-20:00 h. 4th Session. Problematizing the cooperative enterprise: A Marxist vision of organizational paradoxes. \nOrganizational paradoxes\n– The concept of paradox according to the Critical Management Studies literature\n– A Marxian review of the concept of organizational paradox\n\nThe cooperative as a commodity producer\n– The cooperative as a direct solidarity organization between producers of goods\n– The paradoxical conscience of the commodity producer\n\nThe cooperative as a breeder of capital\n– Solidarity strategies and competition of cooperatives\n– The cooperative as a crystallization of a class struggle\n\nThe paradoxes of the Mondragón cooperative\n– Three internal paradoxes of the Mondragón cooperative\n– Two external paradoxes of the Mondragón cooperativeTaught by Jon Las Heras Cuenca \n\n  \nThursday\, April\, 30th 2026\n18:00-20:00 h. 5th Session and closure. Ecologies of planning from a libertarian perspective. \nThe Belly of Revolution: Agriculture Energy and the Future of Communism. – Jasper Bernes\nTaught by José Luis Carretero Miramar
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/uned-offers-a-course-on-democratic-economic-planning/
LOCATION:Pious Schools Classroom 7 or Online\, C. de Tribulete 14\, Madrid\, 28012\, Spain
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260422T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Søren Mau - A Marxist Defense of Utopian Thought
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 22nd April 2026 from 4PM-6PM CEST in room SFG 1030 in the Universität Bremen\, Søren Mau will criticise anti-utopianism within Marxism and provide a Marxist defense for engaging in utopian thinking. \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series “Contemporary Perspectives on Marx” that is being held by Universität Bremen. \nA summary of the event can be found below: \n“For the first meeting of the Institute Colloquium lecture series of the Institute of Philosophy in the summer semester 2026\, we welcome Søren Mau. He will present on the topic “A Marxist Defense of Utopian Thought”\, followed by discussion with the audience. Søren Mau will criticise anti-utopianism within Marxism and provide a Marxist defense for engaging in utopian thinking\, which includes postcapitalist democratic planning. \nThe Institute Colloquium lecture series entitled “Contemporary Perspectives on Marx” is organized in the summer semester in the working field of Practical Philosophy. All interested parties are cordially invited to participate. The entire colloquium plan can be found here.” \nYou can find out more about the event here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/institute-of-philosophy-lecture-by-soren-mau-a-marxist-defense-of-utopian-thought/
LOCATION:Room  SFG 1030\, Bibliothekstraße 1\, Bremen\, Bremen\, 28359\, Germany
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SUMMARY:INDEP x The New Centre for Research and Practice - Introductory online Workshop: "What is Democratic Economic Planning?"
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is hosted by The New Centre for Research and Practice and is organized in partnership with INDEP. \nIt will consist of two sessions\, which will be three hours each. The first session will be on April 30\, the second one on May 7. Both will take place from 9am ET to 11am ET. The entire workshop will be in English. \nThe workshop costs 125 USD total\, but is available for a reduced price of 75 USD for New Centre Members. To sign up and learn more\, click here. \nIt will be taught by Raphael Arar and Eric Meier. You can find their Bios below. \n  \n“This Roundtable explores Democratic Economic Planning (DEP) as an alternative to the financialized market-based economy. With neoliberalism in crisis and authoritarian movements on the rise\, there’s renewed interest in how economies might be organized differently. Any proposal for economic planning has to answer several basic questions: How do you gather accurate information about what people need and what resources exist? What do you measure things in—money\, labor time\, physical units\, some combination? Who makes decisions\, and how centralized should that be? Do markets have any role\, and if so\, what kind? How do you motivate work and handle distribution? These questions are not new. They emerged in the Socialist Calculation Debate of the 1920s-30s. Answers have been attempted differently across historical experiments—from Soviet central planning to Chile’s Cybersyn project to contemporary participatory budgeting initiatives. Today’s proposals range from participatory economics to algorithmic coordination models that imagine repurposing Amazon’s logistics infrastructure for democratic ends. \nSESSION ONE: The opening session will lay out this intellectual landscape and the core problems any planning model confronts. We’ll look at how these questions connect to contemporary concerns about technology\, ecology\, and democratic transition strategies. \nSESSION TWO: The second session builds from student research to map current debates and identify where productive collective work might happen. \nOUTCOMES: You’ll understand the fundamental challenges facing economic planning proposals and how different models tackle them. We’ll cover key historical debates and experiments alongside contemporary paradigms that leverage digital infrastructure. You’ll gain frameworks for evaluating whether planning proposals are actually democratic and practically viable\, plus exposure to real-world implementations and transition strategies. And you’ll connect with others exploring alternatives to market coordination.” \nRaphael Arar works at the nexus of complex systems\, transdisciplinary design and arts-based research. His work highlights the social\, political and economic implications of technological acceleration and human-to-machine interaction. Raphael currently heads Design at One Project\, an organization building infrastructure for a new economy where resources serve people and planet\, not profit. He also serves as an Executive Board Member at Leonardo\, the International Society for the Arts\, Sciences and Technology and a mentor at NEW INC\, a museum-led cultural incubator from the NEW Museum. Previously\, he led design for learners at Khan Academy\, tackled ethical platforms of AI at IBM Research\, taught media theory at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and designed over a hundred iOS apps with Apple. His artwork has been shown at museums\, conferences\, festivals and galleries internationally including the ZKM | Center for Art and Media\, Moscow Museum of Applied Art\, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory\, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)\, Gamble House Museum\, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\, Science Gallery\, Boston Cyberarts Gallery\, and Athens Video Art Festival. Notable commissions include Dublab\, Noema Magazine\, Goethe Institut\, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts\, Intel Labs\, and IBM Research. His design work has been featured in publications including TED\, Forbes\, Inc. Magazine\, FastCompany\, Wired and others. \nEric Meier is an organizer\, researcher\, and artist working on democratic economic planning\, critical theory\, and digital culture. He unites researchers\, activists\, and practitioners globally to advance the research and practice of democratic approaches to economic organization. He studies sociology and philosophy at the University of Bielefeld and is a certificate alumnus of the critical philosophy program at The New Centre. He co-founded INDEP – the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning\, where he works as a strategic network facilitator. He also serves as a student assistant at the University of Kiel\, where he supports Jan Groos\, host of the Future Histories podcast\, in the DFG project Governing Algorithms – A Sociology of the Algorithmic Art of Governing (led by Prof. Robert Seyfert). As an artist\, his practice explores the topics of contemporary internet culture\, (distorted) desire\, and utopian imagination through digital image and video collage. His artistic practice has been presented in the 2023 exhibition Art\, Design\, Aesthetics of Democratic Economic Planning in Bonn—a show he conceptualized\, curated and organized- the Science-Fiction Film Festival 2024 in Berlin and the 2025 exhibition Das Private ist Politisch in Bonn. His work has also appeared in publications by Rizomatica\, Reincantamento\, the Institute of Network Cultures and Rabble Review. He has spoken at a range of international events\, including the 2024 Science-Fiction Film Festival Berlin\, the 2024 London Ecosocialism Conference\, the 2024 and 2025 Future Factory festivals in Rome and the 2025 INDEP conference in Montreal. He regularly hosts workshops\, moderates panels\, and appears as a guest on podcasts discussing democratic futures and transformative imaginaries.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/introductory-online-workshop-what-is-democratic-economic-planning/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Meeting On Labour-Time Economy by the Cybernetic Economy Thematic Group of the Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Party
DESCRIPTION:The Themagroep Cybernetische Economie van de RSP/Cybernetic Economy Thematic Group of the Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Party will holding a meeting on Saturday 16th May from 2PM CEST\, where two members of IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) will discuss how a communist economy can be organised on the basis of labour-time. The meeting will be conduct in English. \nA summary of the event can be found below (from the website\, originally in Dutch\, translated into English): \n“On Saturday\, May 16\, at 2:00 PM\, the Cybernetic Economy thematic group is organizing a meeting at De Gaffel (Gaffelstraat 61b\, Rotterdam). We will be joined by two guests from the German group Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung (IDA)\, who will discuss how a planned cashless economy functions on the basis of working time. The session will be conducted in English. The group draws on the theoretical work of Jan Appel and the Group of International Communists\, specifically the pamphlet “Fundamentals of Communist Production and Distribution\,” which explains how a working-time economy operates. Reading the book is not required\, but it is helpful and may assist in preparing specific questions. The book is available online at the Marxist Internet Archive (including an ePub that was updated a few years ago) and as a hardcopy at De Rode Lap (almost sold out!).\nFor those interested\, recordings of the sessions where this book was discussed are also available on the theme group’s website (sessions 2 through 6 and session 8). If you don’t have time for that\, don’t worry\, because on the IDA website you’ll also find\, among other things\, a short explanatory video about the concept (available in English\, among other languages).\nThe comrades at IDA are very much looking forward to meeting the RSP. I therefore hope to see you there!” \nYou can find out more about the event and register here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/themagroep-cybernetische-economie-van-de-rsp-meeting-on-labour-time-economy/
LOCATION:Gaffelstraat 61B\, Gaffelstraat 61B\, Rotterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260610T160000
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SUMMARY:Alfred-Sohn-Rethel Lecture: Counter-Planning against Climate Fascism by Kohei Saito
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 10th June 2026 from 4PM-6PM CEST at the Kassenhalle\, Forum am Domshof in the Universität Bremen\, Kohei Saito of the University of Tokyo will give the Alfred-Sohn-Rethel lecture “Counter-Planning against Climate Fascism”\, which will discuss how his conception of degrowth communism can be deployed to bring an emancipatory resolution to the dual global crises of climate change and fascism. \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series “Contemporary Perspectives on Marx” that is being held by Universität Bremen. \nA summary of the event can be found below: \n“We will welcome Kohei Saito from the University of Tokyo as a guest for the Alfred-Sohn-Rethel lecture on 10/06/2026. Kohei Saito will give a lecture entitled “Counter-Planning against Climate Fascism” in the cash register hall in the Forum am Domshof.” \nYou can find out more about the event here.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/alfred-sohn-rethel-lecture-counter-planning-against-climate-fascism-by-kohei-saito/
LOCATION:Kassenhalle im Forum am Domshof\, Kassenhalle im Forum am Domshof\, Forum am Domshof 50051\, Bremen\, 50051\, Germany
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