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Blogpost series on AI and economic planning in a post-growth context
Read more: Blogpost series on AI and economic planning in a post-growth contextOn the german post-growth blog “Blog Postwachstum” a blogpost series by Leo Schlichter on the possible potential of AI for economic planning (in a specifically post-growth context) is in the process of being published. Two of three planned posts are already online. Find part 1 here and part 2 here. They are both in German.…
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Call for Papers: Marxism and Systems Science
Read more: Call for Papers: Marxism and Systems ScienceThe academic journal Marxism & Sciences is circulating a call for papers about Marxism and Systems Science – The Technosphere: Systems, Things, and Infrastructures From Tektology, Cybernetics and Computational Planning to the Complexity Paradigm and Platform Capitalism. The call for papers mentions “Cybernetics in socialist planning in view of computation (e.g. in Chile, DDR, USSR,…
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Public lectures of Expert Workshop “Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crises” published on Youtube
Read more: Public lectures of Expert Workshop “Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crises” published on YoutubeThe three public lectures of the expert workshop “Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crisis” have been published on Youtube: Cédric Durand: Ecological Planning and the Problem of Knowledge in the Anthropocene Attila Melegh: Non-Capitalist Mixed Economies: A Polanyian Approach Panel Discussion: How to Democratically Plan Social Metabolism and Technological Change? (with Cédric Durand,…
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A new book on Postcapitalist Countrysides
Read more: A new book on Postcapitalist CountrysidesNick Gallent, Menelaos Gkatzios, Mark Scott, and Andrew Purves just published an edited book in English entitled Postcapitalist Countrysides – From commoning to community wealth building. All the authors teach and research urban planning in the UK, and therefore, the approach is planning from that perspective and not necessarily from an economic planning one. However,…
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“Creative Construction – Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond” edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg published
Read more: “Creative Construction – Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond” edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg publishedThe book “Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond“, which was edited by Jan Groos and Christoph Sorg, has recently been published by Bristol University Press in their “Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century” series. The book offers a wide array of contributions from various authors. For a short overview of…
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Recording uploaded of INDEP event “Kyle Thompson on the General Intellect Unit Podcast and Building a Community”
Read more: Recording uploaded of INDEP event “Kyle Thompson on the General Intellect Unit Podcast and Building a Community”The recording of the INDEP online event with Kyle Thompson giving a retrospective on the General Intellect Unit podcast and how to build a community has been uploaded to our Youtube channel. You can find the video here or below. Here is the website of the General Intellect Unit podcast, where you can find all…
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Call for Abstracts for Conference on the Transformation towards a Socially and Ecologically just Future
Read more: Call for Abstracts for Conference on the Transformation towards a Socially and Ecologically just Future(copied from the document on the conference mailed to INDEP): Conference: Transformation to a (more) socially and ecologically just futureThe path to more democracy – anti-authoritarian and power-critical approaches Location: Vienna & HybridTime: October 3-5, 2025Organizers & Editors: Josef Mühlbauer, Thomas Stölner, Utta Isop, Michael Wissgott, Uwe BittlingmayerLanguages: German and EnglishHosting Institutions: Community College Vienna,…
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New Report on Worker-led Innovation discussing the Lucas Plan and other examples by Jessica Thorne
Read more: New Report on Worker-led Innovation discussing the Lucas Plan and other examples by Jessica ThorneHow can workplaces benefit from innovation that is shaped by workers themselves? This report from Jessica Thorne for the Autonomy Institute, commissioned and published by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), argues that rather than relying on top-down managerial strategies, businesses should embrace worker-led innovation. Here’s a summary of the main points: • This report examines…
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IDA published article on labor time calculation in “express”, a newspaper on socialist union work
Read more: IDA published article on labor time calculation in “express”, a newspaper on socialist union workThe Initiative democratic labor time calculation (IDA) has recently published an article explaining the basics of labor time calculation in the german newspaper “express“. Express is a newspaper focused on socialist union and workplace work. The full article can be read (in german) on the IDA’s website at this link.
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Explainer video about labor time accounting by iDA now online in Croatian
Read more: Explainer video about labor time accounting by iDA now online in CroatianINDEP member IDA’s Explainer Video on labor time accounting is now also available in Serbo-Croatian!
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Anarchist organization “Perspective Self-Management” has included labor time accounting in its program
Read more: Anarchist organization “Perspective Self-Management” has included labor time accounting in its programThe anarchist group “Perspektive Selbstverwaltung” proposes labor time accounting as a transitional step to abolish wage labor and money, valuing all work equally. INDEP member IDA supports this but suggests recording labor time long-term for societal oversight without linking it to consumption.
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A defense of a modular approach to democratic economic planning
Read more: A defense of a modular approach to democratic economic planningSimon Tremblay-Pepin, a professor at the Elisabeth-Bruyère School of Social Innovation at Saint-Paul University and researcher in the research group on democratic planning of the CRITS, published a new logbook entry in French entitled “Why think of post-capitalism in terms of modules?“. The entry presents why a modular approach to democratic economic planning is preferable…
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