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Call For Papers for Special Issue of Organization: The (Re)turn to Marx
Read more: Call For Papers for Special Issue of Organization: The (Re)turn to MarxThe journal Organization has released a call for papers on new readings of Marx and the future of organization. As this topic is quite broad, it is seeking papers that cover this topic on the basis of multiple themes, including post-capitalism and democratic economic planning. The deadline to submit a paper is Thursday 1st April…
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Hermann Lueer reviews German Translation of Peter Hudis’ “Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism”
Read more: Hermann Lueer reviews German Translation of Peter Hudis’ “Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism”Where capitalist relations are not understood in terms of their fundamental categories, the vision of a different society remains necessarily vague or risks reproducing precisely those forms it seeks to overcome. Peter Hudis’s comprehensive study – “Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism” – which has recently been published in German translation by Red &…
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11 Theses on Planning Published
Read more: 11 Theses on Planning PublishedEmerging from discussions at the “The Grounds of Planning: Rationality, Pseudorationality and Critique“, which was held in Berlin in December 2025, a text formulating 11 theses on planning has been published by Jacob Blumenfeld, Rabea Berfelde and Solveig Degen. The theses cover the following topics:1. Planning for Future2. Algorithmic Planning3. Without Models4. Knowledge, Rationality, Planning5.…
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Recording of the Colloquium Planning the Social and Ecological Transformation Uploaded
Read more: Recording of the Colloquium Planning the Social and Ecological Transformation UploadedThe full colloquium organized by STRIVE at the University of Lausanne on April 23rd has been recorded and uploaded. Here is the program with links to the right part of the recording. All the presentations at the colloquium were in French, except the penultimate one, which was in English. 01:11 : Welcome – Augustin Fragnière,…
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Call for Papers: Ecological Planning and its Funding Constraint
Read more: Call for Papers: Ecological Planning and its Funding ConstraintJune 16 to 17, a workshop in French entitled La planification écologique face à la contrainte de son financement: penser la planification financière écologique (Ecological Planning in the Face of Funding Constraints: Rethinking Ecological Financial Planning) will be held at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Montpellier. The organizers, Nicolas Bédu, Léo Malherbe,…
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Letter To Proletären Argues For Ecosocialist Planning
Read more: Letter To Proletären Argues For Ecosocialist PlanningProletären, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Sweden (K), has published a letter by Tomas Härdin arguing that the only way to solve the climate crisis is through instituting a global planned economy. A summary of the letter can be found below: This is a letter I wrote to Proletären, the newspaper of the…
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INDEP’s New Organisational Partnership with Espaces Marx
Read more: INDEP’s New Organisational Partnership with Espaces MarxWe are excited to announce our new organisational partnership between INDEP and the Espaces Marx in France. Espaces Marx (formerly the Institute for Marxist Research) is an association dedicated to critical thinking, education, and intellectual production, rooted in the critical and emancipatory tradition of Marxism. Its goal is to conduct in-depth analyses of the social,…
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New Grant to do a PhD on Democratic Economic Planning in Canada
Read more: New Grant to do a PhD on Democratic Economic Planning in CanadaThe CRITS research group on democratic economic planning is looking for prospective PhD student(s) to submit a grant proposal and, possibly, receive money to do a PhD in Canada. The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has started the Impact+ Research Training Awards. This program offers CAD 40,000 per year for three…
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IDA posts Critical Review of Commonism Model
Read more: IDA posts Critical Review of Commonism ModelThe IDA (Initiative for Democratic Labour Time Accounting) has posted an article critically reviewing the 2018 book “Kapitalismus Aufheben” (“Sublating Capitalism”, an English edition of which was published) by Simon Sutterlütti and Stefan Meretz. In the book, Sutterlütti and Meretz develop their proposal for “Commonism”, a post-capitalist society in which commons sustain production and distribution,…
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New Translations of Texts on the Planning Debate by the IDA
Read more: New Translations of Texts on the Planning Debate by the IDAThe IDA (Initiative for Democratic Labour Time Accounting) has translated several of its texts into English and Spanish. These include Felix Klopotek’s article “Future State, Socialization, Labour-Time Accounting“, a travel report on time banks in Spain, and various contributions to the ongoing debate on planned economies. In their updated publication list, the IDA provides access…
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Recording of INDEP x Green Planning Commission Online Panel – Green Planning for Transition and Policy Uploaded
Read more: Recording of INDEP x Green Planning Commission Online Panel – Green Planning for Transition and Policy UploadedThe recording of our recent online Panel on green planning for transition and policy in collaboration with Common Wealth‘s Green Planning Commission has been uploaded to the INDEP YouTube channel. You can watch it here or below.
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IDA’s Working Time Calculation App Is Now Called Workers Control
Read more: IDA’s Working Time Calculation App Is Now Called Workers ControlThe IDA (Initiative Demokratische Arbeitszeitrechnung/Initiative for Democratic Working Time Accounting) has published an article announcing that their working time calculation app has been renamed so that it’s now called Workers Control. A summary of the article can be found below: We have renamed our working time calculation app – from now on it is called…
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