Debate on planned economies

“Disco brochure published”

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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Discussion about our strategy

Both Aníbal and Fredo responded quite quickly to our strategy paper, which we wrote partly as a reaction to their earlier criticisms of some of our positions (see link: https://nextcloud.arbeitszeitrechnung.org/s/ofo5DtsR4YEEetZ )We would like to point to these critiques here on our blog, since we explicitly welcome critical debate on the practical-political questions surrounding labor-time accounting

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Brochure in Slovak

The group Karmína has translated the article series on labour time calculation, which appeared in Jungle World over the summer (including an article by us), into Slovak and turned it into a brochure. According to their blog, the motivation was the interest in the “fundamental principles of communist production and distribution.” Here’s the link:https://bufet.karmina.red/k23/

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Labour-Time Calculation from Above? A Critique of Cyber-Socialism by Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell

When people think of labour-time calculation, some first think of the theory of Cockshott and Cottrell. The two Scots are generally regarded as prominent representatives of “cyber-socialism.” We have taken a critical look at their classic “Towards a New Socialism” (1993) and their most recent book “Economic Planning in an Age of Climate Crisis” (2022).DOWNLOAD

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