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Postdoctoral contract on democratic economic planning in Québec
Read more: Postdoctoral contract on democratic economic planning in QuébecThe research group on democratic economic planning at the Research Center on Social Innovation and Transformation (CRITS) at Saint Paul University in Ottawa is offering a postdoctoral contract. The objective is to “conduct an empirical analysis of Québec’s economic data relevant to socio-metabolic planning and identify economic and institutional actors compatible with a democratic planning…
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New Future Histories episode discusses first part of Aaron Benanav’s essay series on a multi-criterial socialist economy
Read more: New Future Histories episode discusses first part of Aaron Benanav’s essay series on a multi-criterial socialist economyIn this new episode of the Future Histories podcast, host Jan Groos interviews Aaron Benanav, an academic at Cornell University, about the first part of Benanav’s “Beyond Capitalism” essay series in the New Left Review. More specifically, in this episode, Benanav lays the groundwork for his proposal of a multi-criterial socialist economy. You can watch…
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Call for Papers about Alternatives to Capitalism for 2026 SASE Conference
Read more: Call for Papers about Alternatives to Capitalism for 2026 SASE ConferenceThe Alternatives to Capitalism Network of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics has released a call for papers for the 2026 SASE conference that will be held in Bordeaux, France. They will be accepting 500-word long abstracts (plus references) and the deadline to submit will be December 16 2025. Further information about the call…
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Call for Papers: Planning for the Pluriverse/POLLEN2026
Read more: Call for Papers: Planning for the Pluriverse/POLLEN2026On the POLLEN2026 conference under the title ‘Diverse Origins, Multiple Futures: The Stories of Political Ecology’ from June 29 to July 3 2026 in Barcelona, Dominique Aresenault from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne and Simon Tremblay-Pepin from the Saint Paul University will convene a panel on democratic economic planning. For this panel, they now…
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Reflections on an event series on democratic economic planning
Read more: Reflections on an event series on democratic economic planningThe anarcho-communist group La Banda Vaga from Freiburg, Germany, hosted a series of events earlier this year to promote and discuss ideas of democratic economic planning to meet the challenges of climate change. The group hosted a total of five events with different guests such as Samia Mohammed, Walther Zeug, Heide Lutosch and Jan Groos.…
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New podcast episode on democratic planning, AI and a multicriterial economy with Aaron Benanav
Read more: New podcast episode on democratic planning, AI and a multicriterial economy with Aaron BenanavIn a recent episode of the Dissens podcast titled ‘Capitalism is broken, here’s how we overcome it’, Aaron Benanav talks about the economic crises of our times, centralisation of economic and political power and the hype around artificial intelligence. Building on those topics, he develops his own sketch of a democratically planned economy, based on…
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New book provides an anarchist critique of cybersocialist theories and visions
Read more: New book provides an anarchist critique of cybersocialist theories and visionsAcademics Rhiannon Firth of the University College London and John Preston of the University of Essex have published a new book Utopia in the Factory: Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics that critiques the theories and visions of techno-optimistic socialists that are based on cybernetics, automation, artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0 for being unable to include human…
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Call for Participation and Seminar Proposals for Online Seminars by the ICEA
Read more: Call for Participation and Seminar Proposals for Online Seminars by the ICEAModels, Experiences, and Debates to Rethink Self-Management in the 21st Century The Institute of Economic and Self-Management Sciences (ICEA), in preparation for its upcoming General Assembly, is organizing a series of online seminars to be held in the coming months (provisionally between 12 and 14 December 2025). These meetings aim to promote the exchange of…
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Article responding to criticism by Jasper Bernes of the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’
Read more: Article responding to criticism by Jasper Bernes of the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’Hermann Lueer recently published a review on Jasper Bernes’ book The Future of Revolution. Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising on the blog Left Wing Communism – NOT an infantile disorder. In this review he comments on Bernes’ engagement with The Fundamental Principles of Communist Distribution and Production by the Group…
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New Book Explains how to Transition to a World of Radical Abundance
Read more: New Book Explains how to Transition to a World of Radical AbundanceDrawing on their work building public-common partnerships through the action research organisation Abundance Kai Heron, Keir Milburn, and Bertie Russell have written the exciting new book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Al Campbell uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Al Campbell uploadedThe recording of our recent online talk with Al Campbell on “Protagonistic Planned Socialism (PROPLASO) and Human Development” has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below. For Al Campbell’s personal website, which has an overview of all his publications, click here.
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New translation by Cibcom of article on the economic planning of ice cream production in the Soviet Union
Read more: New translation by Cibcom of article on the economic planning of ice cream production in the Soviet UnionThe Cibcom collective has recently translated the article Soviet Scoops: Ice Cream with Socialist Characteristics by the blog The Stalin Era into Spanish. The article examines the history, development and issues with ice cream production in the Soviet Union in order to examine its implications for how consumption could be organised in a post-capitalist society…
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