Dear friends, comrades, supporters, and fans, The Initiative for Democratic Labor-Time Accounting (IDA) has now been active for around four years. During this time, we’ve done a great deal to push forward the debate around labor-time accounting as a form of socialist economic organization in the 21st century—across a wide variety of left-wing contexts. We’ve […]
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Hermann Lueer has written a worthwhile critique of Moishe Postone’s work Time, Labor, and Social Domination. You can find the text here: https://arbeiterstimmen.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/hermann-lueer-zur-kritik-von-moishe-postones-zeit-arbeit-und-gesellschaftliche-herrschaft/ “Postone’s critique is therefore not merely an academic misunderstanding; it actively undermines social revolution by denying the foundation of workers’ self-emancipation. By shifting the focus away from class struggle and self-managed production,
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Our short film about labour-time accounting is now also available in Serbo-Croatian! Pa, možete se zabaviti i uživati.
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The anarchist organization “Perspektive Selbstverwaltung” has incorporated labour time accounting into its program. We warmly welcome this, as we consider the concept necessary to build a society free of domination. Under “Transition Phase,” “PS” writes: “Equal labour time accounting independent of money: In the long term, wage labour is to be completely abolished. This means
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For its year-end issue 2024, the “nd” asked us about working time calculation. You can read the interview here:https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1187808.visionen-wie-man-den-kapitalismus-ueberwindet.html At the end of January, as in the past two years, we will once again spend a weekend in Brandenburg to discuss in depth the direction of the association for the new year. On January 17,
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For its 2024 year-end edition, nd asked us for an interview about working time calculation. You can read it online or download it as a PDF.
The Spanish group Cibcom has written a foreword to the Spanish translation of the second edition of the Basic Principles of Communist Production and Distribution. We document it here in a German translation: Foreword: “Basic Principles” TodayCibcom A few months ago, through recommendations from some international colleagues involved in socialist planning, we came across this
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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
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In the online edition of the current Platypus Review you can find a detailed interview with us: Democratic Labour-Time Calculation in and for the 21st Century An interview with the Initiative for Democratic Labour-Time Calculation (IDA) from Berlin about the history of the council movement, grassroots democratic economics, and concrete utopias. Download as PDF
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Our brochure “Working Time Instead of Money” is now also available in English! Economist Guenther Sandleben describes how companies can plan using working time and how a working-time-based economy would promote transparency, efficiency, and social justice. This coming weekend we will be in London to present working time accounting at the annual Historical Materialism Conference.
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