Books

A Critique of Moishe Postone’s “Time, Labor, and Social Domination”

Books, Theory |

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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“Basic Principles” Today (Cibcom)

App, Books, Cybersocialism |

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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Newsletter November 2024

Books, Event, Newsletter, Reading group |

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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“‘Working time instead of money’: English translation”

Books, Socialization, solidarity economy, Theory |

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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Detail Portada Principios fundamentales edicion espaniola 2024

Newsletter October 2024

Books, Event, Newsletter, solidarity economy, worker collectives |

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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Paul Mattick – Russian Translation

Books, Theory |

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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New Brochure: ‘Working Time Instead of Money

Books, Debate on planned economies, solidarity economy, Theory, worker collectives |

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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