Simon Sutterlütti and Stefan Meretz outline in “Kapitalismus aufheben” (2018) commonism as a post-capitalist society in which commons sustain production and distribution, work is organized voluntarily, and the means of production are socialized. In his German-language review, Hermann Lueer highlights the strengths of the book while also exposing the theoretical limits of the commonist project. […]
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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
We have renamed our working time calculation app – from now on it is called Workers Control! The old name “Arbeitszeit-App” was clunky and difficult for an international audience to understand. With Workers Control, we want to make it clear that the app is a tool for decentralized self-management – under the control of workers.
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On May 16, we have been invited to the “Cybernetic Economy” thematic group of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) of the Netherlands. The meeting will take place in Rotterdam: https://cybernetica.nu/2026/03/17/aankondiging-bijeenkomst-arbeidstijdeconomie/ The thematic group was founded in 2024 and serves as a space for exchange on the cybernetic coordination of the economy in the spirit of workers’
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In recent months, we have discovered several new books and articles dealing with the calculation of working time. These include works by Schumpeter, Backhaus, Šik, Hennaut, Mandel, Camatte, and Lenin. Please feel free to send us a message if you know of any titles that we have not yet included. Bibliography: LINK
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The debate about a socialist planned economy seems to have definitively returned. Here, we present a small, selective excerpt from the German debate in order to perhaps provide some readers with an easy introduction to the discussions. A few weeks ago, Die «Zeit» picked up on the planned economy debate and addressed it in its
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We’ve noticed that it’s not always very easy to use our app. That’s why we want to redesign it so that it becomes super simple to use. The existing functionalities will remain in place. This opens up entirely new possibilities: imagine a neighborhood network, a self-organized festival, or a commune where care work is socialized!
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We support the call for the nationwide gathering of the collective economy and wish all participating enterprises and fellow organizers a successful meeting! Surrounded by capitalist competition, it is always a challenge to develop and implement solidarity-based alternatives. Nevertheless, in recent years and decades, new collectives have been founded throughout Germany and in a wide
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Abstract How can private reproductive labor be socialized under socialism? The text analyzes the political, cultural, and structural particularities of private reproductive labor and shows how labor-time calculation could serve as a tool to recognize it economically and, consequently, politically. Introduction to Labor-Time Calculation Labor-time calculation, as developed by the “Group of International Communists” (GIC)
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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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