Description in English: On November 20th at 19:00 CET, Cibcom has organized a reading club (in Spanish) to discuss the political economy of North Korea during its first period (centralized planning, the Ch’ŏllima movement, and the Taean system), using the first chapter of Phillip Park’s “History of Economic Management in North Korea” as a basis. […]

The description is taken from the organizer’s website: With keynotes by John O’Neill (University of Manchester) and Aaron Benanav (Cornell University) and contributions by Rabea Berfelde, Jacob Blumenfeld, Lillian Cicerchia, Solveig Degen, Jan Groos, Max Grünberg, Jakob Heyer, Christian Schmidt, Sandra Sieron and Gabriel Wollner   Topic What does it mean to plan an economy […]

Join us for this year’s INDEP online Christmas party! This is going to be an informal get-together without an agenda to just talk, share and look back at the year together. To join, please register here.

The event will be in German The description and program are from the flyer of the event: “Care work and production are currently organized on the basis of domination and separated ownership, leading to unnecessary suffering, environmental disasters, and the climate crisis. Under what circumstances can we plan and organize care work and production in […]

This talk will be hosted by ‘Emanzipation & Frieden e.V.’ The talk will be in German. Here is the translated description of the event: What can we learn from the historical failure of real socialism and the current escalating crisis dynamics of capitalism for the possibilities of a post-capitalist economy? Building on classic and current […]

This talk is hosted by the group ‘Plurale Ökonomik Chemnitz’ (heterodox economics Chemnitz). The talk will be held in German. Here is the translated description of the event: “What can we learn from the historical failure of really existing socialism and the current escalating crisis dynamics of capitalism for the possibilities of a post-capitalist economy? […]

IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung) invites to a screening of the movie “Ohne Chefs – Demokratie bei der Arbeit” (‘Without bosses – democracy at work’). After the movie there will be a discussion with Mario Burbach, the director of the movie, a member of a coffee cooperative from Hamburg that play a role in the movie […]

This event will take place in English. In order to participate, please register here.   Description: In his work, Paul Adler has been exploring how large capitalist firms deal with the challenges of corporate planning, and indeed of democracy in planning, aiming to understand what they might teach us about how socialism could deal with […]

The event will take place in German. The description has been taken and translated from the event website. “An open society, grassroots democracy, and direct worker control over firms—in the midst of the Cold War, Yugoslav communists attempted to implement something that today sounds like a distant utopia. Yugoslavia’s “socialist democracy” sought to overcome both […]

The REAL-Postgrowth project (Post-growth – REAL – A Post-Growth Deal) hosts an online-talk on “Planning and Autonomous Control: Reappraising the Cases for Economic Planning in Socialism” with the doctoral researcher at ICTA-UAB, Sergey Steblev as part of their monthly public seminar series. If non-market socialists want to overcome commodity production, does it mean that a socialist […]

The description is taken from the event’s website and has been translated into English. The event will take place in English. “Troy Vettese in conversation with Dirk Baecker and Maike Weißpflug Moderation: Alexander Karschnia An important legacy of naturalist E.O. Wilson is his book “Half-Earth.” In it, he calls on us to leave half of […]

The Center for Political Economy at Columbia University will be holding a discussion on how to move beyond capitalism. The discussion will be held in English. To participate, please register here. The description of the discussion has been taken from the event website: “We invite you to join the Center for Political Economy on Monday, […]