In our assessment, all possible attempts to implement systems of labor-time accounting will have to deal with deviations from the plan. The fund of public enterprises, as conceptualized below, is intended to give the working class insight into such deviations at the societal level, enabling it to reach technical and political agreements on how to
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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.
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A few days ago, we hosted Dario Azzellini in Berlin and spoke with him about council democracy and working-time accounting. We are sharing the audio recording of the event with you here: Introduction: 0:00Input Dario Azzellini: 01:57Input IDA: 26:55
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We contacted over one hundred collective enterprises across the country to find out whether they are interested in the concept of labour-time accounting. We are delighted that 21 collectives have already responded. Of these, 18 expressed interest in concrete economic alternatives to capitalism and want to learn more about labour-time accounting. In addition, 17 collectives
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Council Democracy and Social Self-Organization – IDA in Discussion with Dario Azzellini 📅 May 15, 2024, 7:00 PM📍 Café Kotti, Adalbertstraße 96B, Berlin In the history of modern revolutions, uprisings, and strikes, the spontaneous formation of (workers’) councils has occurred again and again. Especially when established structures of power collapse or become paralyzed, people have
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Dear Friends and Comrades, We are looking for programmers for the “Arbeitszeitapp,” which has been developed over the past three years by members of IDA. The goal of the app is to implement the theory of labor-time accounting as a web application, based on the ideas of the Group of International Communists. The potential applications
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We’ve created an animated video that explains what labour time calculation is – in just six minutes! With the help of workers Chana and Kalle, we illustrate the vision of a society free from domination.
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We would like to point out a few translations: The lecture text by Felix Klopotek is now available in English:Future State, Socialization, Labour-Time Accounting Our reply to the critique of the Krisis group has been translated into Spanish by Aníbal:Respuesta a la crítica del Grupo Krisis Our article from Jungle World has been translated into
In recent weeks, the weekly newspaper Jungle World ran a discussion series on labour time accounting, in which we were also featured. We are documenting the published articles: Felix Klopotek: Die Verwaltung von Stunden Philip Broistedt und Christian Hofmann: Den Wert aus der Welt schaffen Julian Bierwirth: Wie im Kapitalismus Simon Sutterlütti: Eine antiautoritäre DDR
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Wer es am Montag nicht zum Vortrag von Dario Azzellini zu For those who couldn’t make it to Dario Azzellini’s lecture on worker self-managed enterprises on Monday: we recorded the lecture and highly recommend it. His slides are included as well:https://youtu.be/JWPtc7YB22s
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