Stefan Meretz recently published an essay in which he responds to a critique by Hermann Lueer1 of the book he co-authored with Simon Sutterlütti, Make Capitalism History, and in doing so once again formulates a fundamental critique of the necessity of a general economic unit of measurement („unit of account“).2 Since in the last instance […]
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We have found several new texts dealing with one form or another of labour-time accounting and have added them to our online bibliography. Wherever possible, we have also included download links. One notable new addition is the state socialist Karl Rodbertus and his work Zur Erkenntniss unsrer staatswirthschaftlichen Zustände (1842). In it, he assigns a
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We would like to inform you about selected events and activities taking place over the coming weeks. More details will follow shortly. Film Series on the Spanish Civil War Throughout July, BrotfabrikKINO will host a film series marking the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War and the Spanish Revolution. The program features three weeks
Recently, we published a longer article on “Syndicalism and Labour-Time Accounting.” It was sharply criticized by Aníbal, a council communist writer. According to him, our approach is reformist: “In short, what IDA advocates stands in opposition to communism and particularly to two of its finest expressions: the KAPD and the GIC, council communists.” This criticism
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We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our supporting members. Their donations make it possible for us to act largely independently in the political sphere, to research the Labour Time Calculation, and to bring it to the public. Anyone who takes out a supporting membership with a self-selected contribution will receive a
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The Spanish trade union CNT has invited us to write a contribution on labour-time accounting for its theoretical journal Estudios. The new issue has just been published and covers, in three volumes, the topics of revolutionary syndicalism, ecology, and economic planning. It can be ordered HERE. We are sharing our contribution, in which we discuss
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A debate is currently taking place on the transitional society leading to communism and the role of labour-time accounting within it. It was initiated by an IDA presentation at an anti-capitalist summer camp last year. This was followed by a written exchange with the group International Perspective, which can be read HERE. In the meantime,
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Unfortunately, tomorrow’s Stammtisch in Berlin has to be canceled — we’ll see each other again at the next Stammtisch in June!
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Around eight weeks ago, Hermann Lueer published a critique of our text on the socialization of private reproductive labor. His article, titled “Social versus Private Reproductive Labor,” accuses us of reducing the Marxist calculation of labor time to absurdity. The starting point of this critique is our consideration of how private reproductive labor—especially in the
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Simon Sutterlütti and Stefan Meretz outline in “Kapitalismus aufheben” (2018) commonism as a post-capitalist society in which commons sustain production and distribution, work is organized voluntarily, and the means of production are socialized. In his German-language review, Hermann Lueer highlights the strengths of the book while also exposing the theoretical limits of the commonist project.
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