Amid the escalating social-ecological crisis, which exposes the systemic shortcomings of our current economic models, we must reconsider systemic alternatives such as democratic economic planning (DEP). In our model, planning—understood as the long-term organizational anticipation of actions—operates on multiple levels: strategic central coordination, scientific societal accounting, and autonomous local coordination and production. We advocate for […]

(The description has been translated from German): While care work often receives little attention in economic contexts, this has slowly changed as a result of feminist economic criticism. However, it is still not a self-evident part of economic debates. Nevertheless, current demands for socialization often regard care work as an important component of these demands. […]

(Description copied from the event website): Yvonne Rydin will be presenting her new book “Planning without Growth”. Yvonne Rydin is Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.”Planning without Growth” makes a major contribution to the broader debates on growth and planning, using the built and natural environments […]

Attac Munich holds a monthly open meeting event that gives space to discuss events and hapennings of the month. This one will focus on the Attac conference “Paths towards Economic Democracy”, which was held on the 22nd of March in Munich. Guests included Alex Demirovic, Sabine Nuss, Aline Blankertz, Christoph Sorg, Emma Dowling and Michael […]

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 […]