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Jason Hickel promotes democratizing the economy in the Spanish Parliament
Read more: Jason Hickel promotes democratizing the economy in the Spanish ParliamentJason Hickel in a recent address at the Beyond Growth Conference in the Spanish Parliament discusses economic politics in the polycrisis, highlighting the fundamentally undemocratic nature of capitalist production and distribution. Hickel refers to the imbalance of an over-production of unnecessary products and a chronic underproduction of necessary goods such as clean energy, affordable housing…
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Walther Zeug LinkedIn Post on why Absolute Sustainability Assessment Means Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Walther Zeug LinkedIn Post on why Absolute Sustainability Assessment Means Democratic Economic PlanningWalther Zeug recently attended the 1st International Conference on Absolute Sustainability – “From Less Bad to Good Enough”, hosted by the Centre for Absolute Sustainability at DTU Sustain. As a reflection on the conference he published a post on his LinkedIn account, arguing that Absolute Sustainability Assessments (in contrast to conventional Life Cycle Assessments) has…
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INDEP Conference Report by PEP
Read more: INDEP Conference Report by PEPMembers of the Participatory Economy Project attended and gave presentations at the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning’s first ever in-person conference in Montreal in July 2025. In this recent episode of their podcast, PEP Talk, they discuss what they thought of the event.
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Recording of INDEP online Talk with Cecilia Rikap and Edemilson Paraná uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP online Talk with Cecilia Rikap and Edemilson Paraná uploadedThe recording of our recent INDEP online talk with Cecilia Rikap and Edemilson Paraná has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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Doug Henwood’s Behind the News has an episode on Democratic Economic Planning
Read more: Doug Henwood’s Behind the News has an episode on Democratic Economic PlanningBehind the News, a radio show hosted by writer and political analyst Doug Henwood for about 30 years, has aired an episode on Democratic Economic Planning. In the episode, he receives Aaron Benanav on his recent article published in New Left Review and Jerome Nikolai Warren on the potential of cooperatives. The episode can be…
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New article by La Banda Vaga on the fundamental principles of democratic economic planning and distribution
Read more: New article by La Banda Vaga on the fundamental principles of democratic economic planning and distributionThe anarchist and council communist group La Banda Vaga writes about the fundamental principles of democratic economic planning. Their new article in the German post-growth blog Postwachstum.de is based on a document published in 1930 by the Dutch Group of International Communists on the Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution. The article discusses mechanisms…
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New article on implementing a green-digital transition through commons-based decentralized planning
Read more: New article on implementing a green-digital transition through commons-based decentralized planningIn this article for the journal Globalizations, co-authors Pedro H. J. Nardelli and Rodrigo Santaella-Goncalves of LUT University critique market-based approaches to a green-digital transition for being based on an ecocidal capitalist system and propose that a green-digital transition can be most effectively implemented through cyber-physical commons-based decentralized planning. A summary of the article can…
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From Alpha to Omega podcast episode answers questions about talk on unifying socialism and cybernetics
Read more: From Alpha to Omega podcast episode answers questions about talk on unifying socialism and cyberneticsIn this episode of the From Alpha to Omega podcast, host Tom O’Brien answers audience questions on the recent talk he gave to the Complex Anarchism Symposium entitled ‘Unifying Marxism and Cybernetics‘. You can watch the episode here.
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New article on planning beyond growth and the need for democratic macroeconomic coordination
Read more: New article on planning beyond growth and the need for democratic macroeconomic coordinationMatthias Schmelzer, professor for social-ecological transformation at the University of Flensburg and Elena Hofferberth, post-doc researcher at the University of Lausanne argue in this Special Issue on Utopias, published by the HEC Research Center for Grand Challenges at the University of Lausanne for democratic coordination of economic activity for a profound and fast social-ecological transformation…
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Tech Won’t Save Us podcast episode discusses multi-criterial socialist economy with Aaron Benanav
Read more: Tech Won’t Save Us podcast episode discusses multi-criterial socialist economy with Aaron BenanavIn this episode of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, host Paris Marx interviews Aaron Benanav about his recent articles for the New Left Review that outline his vision for a multi-criterial socialist economy, with this episode focusing on how such an economy can center human experience through democratic discourse to drive social and technological…
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New Cibcom article on the relationship between democratic economic planning and management under communism
Read more: New Cibcom article on the relationship between democratic economic planning and management under communismIn this article from Cibcom, Alan Ernesto Segura Pérez deploys Marxist critiques of capitalism and reflections on the Soviet-type societies to argue that the fundamental principles of the communist mode of production in the 21st century and beyond are democratic planning and collective management of the industrial economy. You can read the article, which is…
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Jason Hickel Demands Democratic Economic Planning for a Sustainable Needs-Centered Economy
Read more: Jason Hickel Demands Democratic Economic Planning for a Sustainable Needs-Centered EconomyIn this recent interview on Novara Media, Aaron Bastani gets into conversation with Jason Hickel, political economist and degrowth advocate from Britain. Among several other topics, Hickel points out why democratic planning of our economies is essential to regain control over society’s productive capacities to mitigate the escalating ecological and social crises while also meeting…
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