In this INDEP online event former co-host of the General Intellect Unit podcast Kyle Thompson will give a retrospective on the podcast, which ran from late 2017 to spring 2024. It was described as “the podcast of the cybernetic marxists” and explored issues regarding technology, marxist politics and economic planning and managed to build a […]

On Wednesday 12 February at 20:00 CET the Cybernetic Economy theme group of the Socialists (Netherlands) will be hosting its first digital meeting with an international speaker, Tom O’Brien. They are now coming to the end of our review of Foundational Principles of Communist Production and Distribution and will discuss in broad terms the themes […]

Struggles over investment have long been struggles for control of our economies. Investment shapes the trajectory of social development: it determines which sectors grow or shrink, influences regional development patterns, and drives overall economic expansion or degrowth. In capitalist systems, investment decisions are largely made in isolation by private company and bank management, often in […]

The Vanguard Method is a mangement and workplace design method for service organisations  to help them move away from a “command and control” to a systems approach. In democratic economic planning circles it’s being discussed (alongside with the Toyota Production System – see here, here and here) as an important tool for worker’s control over […]