Stefan Meretz, co-founder of the “Commons Institute” in Bonn, has subjected our concept of labor-time accounting to criticism. We would like to address the eleven points of criticism raised by Meretz individually. You can also access the article in German in our publications.
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As every month, we would like to share some activities and updates with you. First, a quick personal update: We are very pleased to announce the publication of a text by Guenther Sandleben as a brochure. The text is based on a lecture he gave at our invitation last year, titled “Working Time Instead of
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We are very pleased to be able to publish a text by Guenther Sandleben as a brochure. The text is based on a lecture he gave last year at our invitation and bears the title “Working Time Instead of Money. How Enterprises Can Calculate with Working Time.” The text makes it clear that working-time accounting
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A few days ago, we hosted Dario Azzellini in Berlin and spoke with him about council democracy and working-time accounting. We are sharing the audio recording of the event with you here: Introduction: 0:00Input Dario Azzellini: 01:57Input IDA: 26:55
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Last week, Hermann Lueer gave a lecture on the “Basic Principles of Communist Production and Distribution.” In his talk, he addressed: the history of the “Group of International Communists”, their main work, the “Basic Principles”, and common objections to working-time accounting. We are pleased to publish the manuscript of the lecture here in german language.
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As every month, we would like to share some activities and news with you: We have now compiled all the articles from Jungle World’s 2023 discussion series on working time accounting into a brochure and added a foreword. Definitely worth reading to get an overview of the debate! Contributions by Felix Klopotek, Philip Broistedt &
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All articles from Jungle World’s 2023 discussion series on working time accounting have now been compiled into a brochure and provided with a foreword. Definitely worth reading if you want to get an overview of the discussion! Contributions by Felix Klopotek, Philip Broistedt & Christian Hofmann, Julian Bierwirth, Simon Sutterlütti, Jonna Klick, Hermann Lueer, ourselves,
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We contacted over one hundred collective enterprises across the country to find out whether they are interested in the concept of labour-time accounting. We are delighted that 21 collectives have already responded. Of these, 18 expressed interest in concrete economic alternatives to capitalism and want to learn more about labour-time accounting. In addition, 17 collectives
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Council Democracy and Social Self-Organization – IDA in Discussion with Dario Azzellini 📅 May 15, 2024, 7:00 PM📍 Café Kotti, Adalbertstraße 96B, Berlin In the history of modern revolutions, uprisings, and strikes, the spontaneous formation of (workers’) councils has occurred again and again. Especially when established structures of power collapse or become paralyzed, people have
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Dear friends, It might be time again to share with you what’s currently happening in our association: Internal Use of the Working Time AppWe have decided to use our working time app in the day-to-day operations of the association in order to experiment with working time accounting. Last Wednesday we held an internal workshop where
