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Autonomy Report Proposes Transition Strategy For Multi-Criterial Socialism
Read more: Autonomy Report Proposes Transition Strategy For Multi-Criterial SocialismThe think-tank Autonomy has published a report by Aaron Benanav where he proposes a transition strategy that will result in the replacement of capitalism with multi-criterial socialism. A summary of the report can be found below: What would it take to organise an economy not around financial returns on capital invested, but rather the plurality…
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Job Opening at Communia for a Public Relations Work and Social Media Role
Read more: Job Opening at Communia for a Public Relations Work and Social Media RoleThe German Berlin-based think tank Communia posted a job opening for a public relations work and social media role. The deadline for applications is the 18th May. You can find more details about the job (in German) here.
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Common Wealth Job Openings for 2 Advisory Board Members
Read more: Common Wealth Job Openings for 2 Advisory Board MembersThe UK think-tank Common Wealth has a job opening for 2 advisory board members. The positions will be voluntary. The deadline for applications is June 1st, 10am BST. You can find more detailed information about the positions here.
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New Talk by Walther Zeug on Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning Published
Read more: New Talk by Walther Zeug on Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning PublishedWalther Zeug has recently published a recording of a talk he gave for the “Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik Chemnitz” (Network heterodox economics Chemnitz). In the talk he gives a general introduction to the model “Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning” that he and Jakob Heyer have developed. You can find the talk in German here.
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Recording Of Labour-Time Economy Meeting By IDA And Revolutionair Socialistische Partij Uploaded
Read more: Recording Of Labour-Time Economy Meeting By IDA And Revolutionair Socialistische Partij UploadedA recording of a meeting by the Themagroep Cybernetische Economie van de RSP/Cybernetic Economy Thematic Group of the Revolutionair Socialistische Partij/Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Party and IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting), where two IDA members discussed how a communist economy can be organised on the basis of labour-time, has been released. A…
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New Book Examines Cuba’s Cooperatives
Read more: New Book Examines Cuba’s CooperativesBloomsbury has published a book edited by Al Campbell of the University of Utah Beatriz Diaz of the University of Havana that examines the theory, history, practice and future of cooperatives in Cuba. A summary of the book can be found below: For almost 200 years advocates of socialism have argued about whether having cooperatives…
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Green Planning Commission Publishes Report On Economic Coordination And The Limits Of Markets
Read more: Green Planning Commission Publishes Report On Economic Coordination And The Limits Of MarketsThe Green Planning Commission, an initiative of Common Wealth, has published a report by Common Wealth US Programme Director Melanie Brusseler arguing that private market coordination cannot deliver decarbonization or affordable essential provisions and that public coordination must be the organizing logic of the next progressive agenda and the premise of policy design. The report’s…
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IDA Article Responds To Hermann Lueer’s Critique of IDA Article on Socializing Private Reproductive Labour
Read more: IDA Article Responds To Hermann Lueer’s Critique of IDA Article on Socializing Private Reproductive LabourThe IDA (Initiative for Democratic Labour Time Accounting) has posted an article responding to Hermann Lueer’s critique of the IDA’s article on how private reproductive labour can be socialized in a communist society. A summary of the response can be found below: Around eight weeks ago, Hermann Lueer published a critique of our text on…
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Book By Oli Mould Envisions Postcapitalist Cities
Read more: Book By Oli Mould Envisions Postcapitalist CitiesManchester University Press has published the book Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a common urban future with Man by Oli Mould, Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. In the book, Mould critiques cities under capitalism and envisions how cities in a postcapitalist society could help solve the social, cultural, political, economic and ecological…
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Spanish Translation Of Economic Planning In An Age Of Climate Crisis Published
Read more: Spanish Translation Of Economic Planning In An Age Of Climate Crisis PublishedA Spanish translation of the book Economic Planning in an Age of Climate Crisis by William Paul Cockshott, Allin Cottrell and Jan Philipp Dapprich has been published by Trotta Editorial. A summary of the book’s arguments can be found below: This book is devoted to two topics that have been subject to pro- found political…
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Catarsi Article Argues That Democracy And Economic Planning Need Each Other
Read more: Catarsi Article Argues That Democracy And Economic Planning Need Each OtherIn an article for the magazine Catarsi, Cibcom collective members Guillem Murcia and Sergio Salas Nicás analyse the history of democracy and socialism and then argue on the basis of these histories that a democratisation of society requires economic planning and that an economic planning that meets people’s needs in an ecologically sustainable manner needs…
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Cibcom Article Reviews Factory Physics
Read more: Cibcom Article Reviews Factory PhysicsIn an article for the website of the Cibcom collective, Alan Ernesto Segura Pérez reviews the book Factory Physics by Wallace J. Hopp and Mark L. Spearman, which is about different management approaches in the manufacturing industry. More specifically, Pérez’s review of the book focuses on what lessons that the book can provide for future…
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