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 […]

INDEP’s first conference will be held during SASE 2025: online on July 3rd and in person in Montréal, Québec, from July 9th to July 12th (see the full schedule). The conference will feature 14 panels and 39 presenters. INDEP’s first conference is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council […]

On July 8th Cooperation Jackson will be hosting a livestream with INDEP member Raphael Arar to talk about how to build autonomous social digital commons. This event is part of Cooperation Jackson’s “Build and Fight Formula” event series, which takes place on the second Tuesday of every month. You can find past livestreams of this […]

The event will take place online and in English. The description is taken from the event organizer’s website: To conclude the activities of the BioMaterialities research group, we warmly invite you to a one-day online workshop that brings together central themes of our collaborative research: technology, valorization, and politics in the context of the high-tech […]

In this event a roster of INDEP members are going to give their own personal impression and highlights from the first INDEP conference in Montreal. Through this kaleidoscopic view we hope to capture the bigger image of the conference. A Q&A/discussion section will follow afterwards. Please register for the event here.