We warmly invite you to a film screening followed by a discussion on January 29: Film: Ohne Chefs – Demokratie bei der Arbeit (2025) Some people cannot imagine a life without work. Even fewer can imagine work without a boss. Yet there are already projects today that function entirely without bosses. We embark on a […]
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Untergrundblättle pays tribute with the article “Die vergessene Logik des Kommunismus” to the “Fundamental Principles” formulated by Jan Appel in prison in 1925 — the central theoretical text on labour-time accounting. The article by Herman Lueer is available in German and English and is highly recommended reading! We will bring the year to a dignified
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Robin Hahnel, the founder of the planned economic model Parecon, criticized labor-time calculation in his May 2025 article “Labor Time Accounting: A Postmortem”: “The point is that labor time is not the only real cost of making different goods and services. There are environmental costs, which along with labor costs, should clearly be accounted for
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Hermann Lueer has subjected Jasper Bernes’ new book, The Future of Revolution, to a compelling critique. The idea that rationing could be a meaningful alternative to accounting based on working time is firmly rejected by Lueer. Read the full article here: Leftdis
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In mid-October we’re heading to the Ruhr! In Dortmund and Mülheim we’ll be giving two talks promoting the concept of working-time accounting – and bringing together what belongs together: workplace self-management and democratic planned economy as an emancipatory alternative to capitalism! 16.10. AZ Mülheim (https://www.az-muelheim.de/kontaktweg/)17.10. Black Pigeon Dortmund (https://black-pigeon.org/kontakt/)Both at 7 p.m. – free entry
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On the Post-Growth Blog, a plea for labor-time accounting has been published. In it, the Freiburg-based group La Banda Vaga explains why the “Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution” are more necessary than ever in times of multiple crises. The movements and uprisings of the past two decades, they argue, have fizzled out because
The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation offers training materials on “Living Utopias!” (in german). It’s great that labour time calculation – the ‘new kid on the block’ – is also included! Click on the yellow plus signs to learn more. Also highly recommended: the article on self-management and workplace occupations! (in english).
The audio recording of the lecture “Anarcho-Syndicalism and Free Society” by Helge Döhring, including an engaging discussion, is now online in German — feel free to listen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B7bRVxLNqk
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¡Ándale! – Next Tuesday, August 12, we will be presenting the labor-time calculation and our app for the first time to a Mexican audience. We have been invited by the Institute for Political Education of the ruling Morena Party (https://www.infpmorena.com.mx) and are looking forward to the exchange. More on this in the coming days
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The Angry Workers have published an article critically engaging with the “Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution” — the key work on labour-time accounting. They emphasize that this text “remains, for good reason, the main reference point for our debates,” while also questioning several aspects of the theory developed within it. The article is
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