Theory

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

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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Paul Mattick – Russian Translation

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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Fund of public enterprises

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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New Brochure: ‘Working Time Instead of Money

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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Lecture Text ‘Basic Principles’ (Hermann Lueer)

Last week, Hermann Lueer gave a lecture on the “Basic Principles of Communist Production and Distribution.” In his talk, he addressed: the history of the “Group of International Communists”, their main work, the “Basic Principles”, and common objections to working-time accounting. We are pleased to publish the manuscript of the lecture here in german language.

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