Explainer Video for the App – We’ve created a short video that explains the key features of our app: How do enterprises create a plan? How is it approved? And how can I consume products using labor time? Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/bFPRAajb72o?si=MUz9iGmkJUo5hR2C Talk with DIE LINKE Neukölln – On Monday, April 28th, we’ll be […]
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Several reading circles are currently exploring the “Basic Principles” – and to go along with that, we’re offering the classic text together with a companion reading group booklet. The booklet helps you navigate the old-style writing and serves as a helpful reading aid. For next to nothing – or as a small donation – we’ll
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Hermann Lueer has written a worthwhile critique of Moishe Postone’s work Time, Labor, and Social Domination. You can find the text here: https://arbeiterstimmen.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/hermann-lueer-zur-kritik-von-moishe-postones-zeit-arbeit-und-gesellschaftliche-herrschaft/ “Postone’s critique is therefore not merely an academic misunderstanding; it actively undermines social revolution by denying the foundation of workers’ self-emancipation. By shifting the focus away from class struggle and self-managed production,
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The Spanish group Cibcom has written a foreword to the Spanish translation of the second edition of the Basic Principles of Communist Production and Distribution. We document it here in a German translation: Foreword: “Basic Principles” TodayCibcom A few months ago, through recommendations from some international colleagues involved in socialist planning, we came across this
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On our blog, we have published a review addressing the current state of the planning debate. The occasion was Prokla issue #215 on planned economy: “Democratic Planned Economy and Labour-Time Calculation.” The RAV (Republican Lawyers’ Association) invited us for an interview for the “Utopia” issue of their newsletter. You can read it here: “With an
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We have written a review of PROKLA issue no. 215: “Democratic Planned Economy in Times of Digitalization and Climate Crisis” in German. You can also access the article in our publications.
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Our brochure “Working Time Instead of Money” is now also available in English! Economist Guenther Sandleben describes how companies can plan using working time and how a working-time-based economy would promote transparency, efficiency, and social justice. This coming weekend we will be in London to present working time accounting at the annual Historical Materialism Conference.
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Our brochure “Working Time Instead of Money” is now also available in English translation!Download the PDF here or request a printed copy. Even today, all businesses must plan. But how can they do this with working time instead of money? Economist Guenther Sandleben examines this question in this new IDA brochure and shows how an
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From October 11–13, the *IV European Meeting of the Workers’ Economy* will take place at Can Batlló, Barcelona. On Saturday afternoon, we will have the opportunity to present the Working Time Accounting initiative. We look forward to exchanging ideas with comrades from Europe and Latin America. The meeting is organized by the anarcho-syndicalist union CGT.
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We are sharing here a new Russian translation of Paul Mattick’s Introduction to the Basic Principles of Communist Production and Distribution from 1970. This introduction is undoubtedly worth reading, but it also raises some questions and does not fully reflect the position of our association. In particular, Mattick’s view that the abolition of labor-time accounting
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