A list of events hosted by us and by others on democratic economic planning. Watch recordings of past events on our YouTube channel. Events RSS Feed.
The IDA (Initiative democratic labor-time calculation) will give a public talk for Die Linke Neukölln (a local Berlin subdivision of the german party “Die Linke”) about labor time calculation as a possible basis for a decentral self-organized planned economy. After the talk there will be a discussion.
Critics of lean production, including many Marxists, argue that it is a management system that was designed to deskill labour and intensify work. It is an inherently capitalist management system that should be resisted by workers and rejected by trade unions, the implication being that it would have no place in a socialist economy, and […]
The description is provided by the event hosts: This event will be held in Slovenian. Welcome everyone, we will do our best to translate live. The lecture and debate will take place at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, in the Physics Building, Lecture Hall F7. This lecture will focus on historical […]
This talk is part of a larger series of talks about democratic economic planning in times of the climate catastrophe, hosted by the german council-communist-anarchist group La Banda Vaga in Freiburg, Germany. They have previously published an article calling for an anti-authoritarian councilist planned economy. You can find the other talks in this series via […]
One of the main goals of postcapitalist democratic economic planning (DEP) is to thoroughly democratize economic decision making. Yet, the technical nature of economic expertise intended to advocate for and support DEP could inadvertently lead to the rise of a new elite with outsized influence on economic decisions. Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin will […]
Paul Guillibert, Frédéric Monferrand, Alexis Cukier, Davide Gallo Lassere are organizing an event in French entitled Planning, degrowth, and social reproduction: the political relevance of ecomarxism. The event can be joined on May 20, 2025, in Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne or online via this link. The hypothesis underlying this event is that eco-Marxism is currently entering a […]
The world is burning. Forest fires, droughts, and floods are multiplying across the globe. The Israeli state is massacring the Palestinian population with the complicity of Western powers, putting the region at risk. Inequalities are on the rise all over the planet. People are being evicted from their homes, and others are struggling to pay […]
The event will be in English. The description is taken from the event’s website: “One of Marx’s key arguments in Capital is that capital lays the material conditions for socialism through the socialization of production (harnessing the cooperative powers of the collective workers and the social powers of science and technology). But he probably did […]
The Récri, a seminar in critical political economy that is held regularly in Paris, will present its thirteenth session on the theme: Markets and Alternative Production Coordination. The seminar will be in person at the MSH Paris Nord, but also live on their YouTube channel. One presentation will be in English, the others will be […]
Dissent on Mars is a new simulation game that lets players design dozens of different economies to live in, including a democratically planned economy. During this event, developer Michael Hicks will talk about his inspirations for the game, how democratic planning is simulated, the challenges he faced during development, and future plans for the game. […]
The event will be held in German, there will be no online participation. The description is taken from the event’s website: “Vorstellung eines juristischen Gutachtens mit Dr. Johannes Franke (Kanzlei Rechtsanwälte Günther Hamburg), kommentiert durch Rabea Berfelde und Solveig Degen, moderiert von Justus Henze (communia) Veranstaltung im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekt „Socialization in Theory and Practice. […]
When a few council communists in the 1920s imagined how a communist economy could work, they imagined a moneyless economy using labour time as its unit of exchange, with a corresponding bookkeeping system. 100 years later, we can implement this system digitally with databases and the Web. The goal is still the same: a society […]