The 21st Historical Materialism Conference will take place November 7-10 2024 in London. INDEP Steering Group members Thomas O’Brien, Donal O’Coisdealbha, and Ferdia O’Driscoll have organised three panels on postcapitalism, namely:
- Socialist Planning 1 – Emergent Control
- Socialist Planning 2 – Participation and Rationality
- Socialist Planning 3 – Can Socialism Solve the Ecological Crisis?
This year, Historical Materialism created a Post-Capitalism stream, emblematic of the increasing attention being given to questions of postcapitalism by the Left. There are other panels within that stream, such as (non-exhaustive):
- Concrete Experiments and Radical Ideas for Post-Capitalist Futures
- Value Form, Labour and Technology in Socialist Transitions
- Planning (Eco-socialist) Futures at the Global Scale
There will of course be many talks of relevance to postcapitalism. Many INDEP members will be participating and attending. Full draft programme can be found here.
More details of INDEP panels:
Friday 8th Nov: 14:15-16:00
Socialist Planning 1: Socialism and Emergent Control
Ferdia O’Driscoll: Transcending the “Soft vs. Hard” Budget Constraint in Socialism using Self-Determination Theory
Donal O’Coisdealbha: Implications of modern industrial organisation for the socialist economy
Nick Rogers: Goal Directed Economic Coordination
Sebastian Loschert, Peter Scholl, Andre Kistner: Firm Based Planning in the Socialist Economy
Chair: Thomas O’Brien
Friday 8th – 16:15-18:00
Socialist Planning 2: Participation and Rationality
Aaron Benanav: Constructing a Socialist Investment Function
Pat Devine: Participatory Eco-socialist Planning via Social Ownership and Negotiated Coordination
Martin Schmidt: Postcapitalist Utility Functions and Democratic Economics
John O’Neill: Rationality without optimisation
Chair: Ferdia O’Driscoll
Saturday 9th – 09:30-11:15
Socialist Planning 3: Can Socialism Solve the Ecological Crisis?
Simon Hannah: Reclaiming the future: Socialist democratic planning in the face of climate crisis
Samia Mohammed: Planning for Freedom: Freedom beyond ecological destruction in a socialist economy
Pedro H. J Nardelli, Harun Šiljak, Rodrigo Santaella Gonçalves: Commons-based Ultra-Scalable Polycentric Social Planning for Multi Tier Allocation of Heterogeneous Resources
Chair: Ferdia O’Driscoll