We have translated some of our texts into English and Spanish, including Felix Klopotek’s article “Future State, Socialization, Work Time Accounting,” a travel report on time banks in Spain, and various contributions to the new debate on planned economies. In our updated publication list, you can browse all contributions from the last five years; in […]
LabourNet TV is currently working on an exciting film project titled “Eine Welt zu verlieren” (“A World to Lose”), which we are eager to promote—and in which we also have a voice. Following the removal of central cultural funding in 2025, LabourNet TV is facing a significant funding gap—and only with your support can such
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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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Our Critique of Cockshott and Cottrell: “Labour Time Accounting from Above? A Critique of Cockshott and Cottrell’s Cybersocialism” is now also available in Chinese translation! The text was originally published in German in 2023 and was later translated into English. Since we do not speak Chinese ourselves, we are providing the Chinese translation here alongside
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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
Newsletter December 2024 Read More »
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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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.
Abolition of compulsory labor Read More »
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
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
Note: This text was translated using AI due to time constraints. The book „Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution“ by Hermann Lueer was first published in 2018 and constitutes a promotional commentary on the book of the same title by the Group of International Communists (GIK). Lueer is already to be credited with having
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