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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Matt Vidal on Lean Production\, Worker Control\, and Socialist Efficiency in the Age of Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION: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 no role in socialist planning. \nAgainst this\, Vidal argues that the forces of production have a relative autonomy from capitalist relations of production and that lean production is a general management system compatible with worker empowerment\, strong unions\, and worker control. \nIn this talk\, he will argue that under socialism\, worker managed production and service organisations – within and beyond manufacturing – should adopt lean production methods. He will argue that socialists need to take efficiency seriously\, particularly in the age of climate crisis\, will distinguish between capitalist efficiency and socialist efficiency\, and will argue that lean production is necessary for achieving socialist efficiency in a burning world. He will offer some reflections on the role lean production can play in socialist planning. \n  \nThis event will take place in English. \nPlease register yourself here to participate.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-matt-vidal-on-lean-production-worker-control-and-socialist-efficiency-in-the-age-of-climate-crisis/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Err404 Kapital not found: Planned economies in history
DESCRIPTION:The description is provided by the event hosts: \nThis event will be held in Slovenian. Welcome everyone\, we will do our best to translate live. \nThe lecture and debate will take place at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics\, University of Ljubljana\, in the Physics Building\, Lecture Hall F7. \nThis lecture will focus on historical examples of planned economies. We will explore key events and significant projects from past experiments. Building on these insights\, we will open a discussion on what a socialist planned economy could and should look like in the future this is a topic we will continue to explore in greater depth in upcoming lectures.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/err404-kapital-not-found-planned-economies-in-history/
LOCATION:Faculty of Mathematics and Physics\, University of Ljubljana\, Physics Building\, Lecture Hall F7
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SUMMARY:Talk by La Banda Vaga on the Necessity of a Planned Economy in the Climate Catastrophe
DESCRIPTION: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. \nYou can find the other talks in this series via this link. We will also post them as events as their date approaches. \nThe description is taken from the event’s website and translated into english: \n“The climate crisis is omnipresent. However\, neither the state nor the market are in a position to counteract the climate catastrophe. On the contrary\, it is precisely their actions that are escalating the situation. In contrast\, in recent years voices have become louder calling for rational economic planning. In our lecture\, we want to present a critique of the market-based attempt to deal with the climate catastrophe and a sketch of a democratically planned economy that could actually do something to counter today’s challenges.” \nThe talk will be in German.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/talk-by-la-banda-vaga-on-the-necessity-of-a-planned-economy-in-the-climate-catastrophe/
LOCATION:Susi Café\, Vauban-Allee 2a\, Freiburg im Breisgrau\, Baden-Württemberg\, 79100\, Germany
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk - Rethinking Expertise in Democratic Economic Planning - with Ellen D. Russell and Simon Tremblay-Pepin
DESCRIPTION: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 discuss this problematic and possible counter-measures like capacities in institutional and subjective oversight. They will also go into why this might not be sufficient to avoid antidemocratic possibilities and propose reconsidering economic expertise as a way to alleviate this tension. \nThe event will be based on a recently published paper by Ellen and Simon. \nThis event will be in English. \nTo participate\, please register via this link.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-rethinking-expertise-in-democratic-economic-planning-with-ellen-d-russell-and-simon-tremblay-pepin/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:A conference on planning\, degrowth and social reproduction in Paris and online
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe hypothesis underlying this event is that eco-Marxism is currently entering a new phase in its history. Henceforth\, it is not only ecological catastrophes\, but also the political means of averting them that occupy attention. In other words\, it is no longer only the theoretical critique of capitalism\, but also the strategic perspectives once explored by Marxism that are now seeking renewal. In this respect\, we see three major proposals taking shape\, representing three ways of imagining a democratization of socio-economic life in the age of the Anthropocene: ecosocialist planning\, degrowth\, and the invention of autonomous\, localized forms of eco-social reproduction. This event aims to explore and compare these three proposals. \nFull schedule and details here: https://isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/evenements/planification-decroissance-reproduction-actualite-politique-lecomarxisme
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/a-conference-on-planning-degrowth-and-social-reproduction-in-paris-and-online/
LOCATION:Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne\, 1 rue de la Glacière\, Paris\, 75013\, France
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SUMMARY:The Great Transition: Reviving post-capitalist solidarities in Montréal
DESCRIPTION: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 rent\, while landlords are getting richer. Grocery is becoming ever more expensive\, while large food retailers are making record profits. Migrants drown crossing the Rio Grande and the Mediterranean\, while their brothers and sisters are exploited and underpaid in the fields\, warehouses\, and hospitals of the Global North. \nIt’s becoming increasingly urgent to implement radical left solutions: socialize the means of production; create worker and consumer cooperatives; de-asphalt and revitalize our living environments; develop non-market housing; decentralize power; collectively share care work; demilitarize our societies. These measures are the bare minimum to create the conditions of a decent life for all. There is an undeniable need to dismantle capitalism\, patriarchy\, and colonialism. \nYou can get the full schedule here: https://thegreattransition.net/schedule/
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/the-great-transition-reviving-post-capitalist-solidarities-in-montreal/
LOCATION:UQAM\, 400 Rue Sainte-Catherine E\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2L 2C5\, Canada
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