When Marx and Engels said capitalism creates its own gravediggers, they probably weren’t thinking of the most innovative capitalist managers. But in one of the great ironies of history, they accidentally created a group of methods that perfect- ly fit both how to seize the means of production, and what to do with it once […]

To participate in person, please register on the website of the event. For online Participation, here’s the link and meeting login data: Workshop participation via Zoom: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69695476478?pwd=Rh0ZIZevxZoqXZiH9pea42lHTVbq8j.1 Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478 Passcode: 800441 The description is taken from the organizer’s website: “Co-organized with Christoph Sorg (HU Berlin) and Solveig Degen from the „Socialization in […]

The IDA (Initiative Democratic Labour Time Accounting) is going to be presenting Labour Time Accounting at the coming “Kollektivfreitag” of the FAU (Freie Arbeiter*innen Union) Hamburg. The FAU is an independent grass-roots union which is organized in a federation across Germany. The event will be in German.

This coming Sunday, September 7 at 5pm-7pm UTC (1pm-3pm EDT/7pm-9pm CET), Leone and Alex Creiner will host a public discussion on the Econophysics discord server about Alex’s upcoming paper, Completing Marx’s Reproduction Schema. The paper discusses Marx’s intent with capital, social reproduction and extensions to Marx’s reproduction schema, disproportionality crises, and blindness induced by the […]

Note: There are two versions of the description of this workshop. On the official website of the Informatik Festival 2025 you can find the older, German description, on Johannes Buchner (one of the co-organizers of the workshop) you can find the updated, English description. We share the updated, English one below: If the workshop will […]

The description is taken from the program of the event website: “With growing ecological concerns and mounting scientific evidence of rapid environmental degradation, governments have created multiple institutions, engaged in a vast array of policies and supported business initiatives. However, and despite some limited success in specific dimensions, the balance of five decades of activism […]

Important: The event has already sold out. We are sharing it here for informative purposes nevertheless. The description is taken from the event’s website: “Climate Week with Common Wealth, The BREAK—DOWN, and Phenomenal World Building a new era of green democratic planning from the collapse of Bidenomics A panel discussion and reception to launch the […]

Digital sovereignty has become an urgent question in contemporary policy debates, due to the way in which digital platforms have become a crucial instrument of influence and infrastructural power. World regions such as Europe and Latin America that – compared to China and the US – have little domestic capacity in key digital technologies such […]

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 […]

The IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative democratic Labour Time Accounting) is giving two introductory talks on the concept of democratic Labour Time Accounting in the Ruhrgebiet area of Germany. Both events will be in German.

The IDA (Initiative demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative democratic Labour Time Accounting) is giving two introductory talks on the concept of democratic Labour Time Accounting in the Ruhrgebiet area of Germany. Both events will be in German.

This description is copied from the event flyer: This talk explores the resurgence of economic planning debates, arguing that planning has expanded under capitalism rather than declined. It revisits the socialist calculation debate and reviews three planning models: Keynesian, Neurathian, and Polanyian. Emaphasizing Polanyian planning, Sorg highlights its potential for democratizing surplus allocation, decommodifying essential […]