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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Explainer Video for the App – We’ve created a short video that explains the key features of our app: How do enterprises create a plan? How is it approved? And how can I consume products using labor time? Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/bFPRAajb72o?si=MUz9iGmkJUo5hR2C Talk with DIE LINKE Neukölln – On Monday, April 28th, we’ll be
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Lecture and Discussion: Labor Time Accounting as the Basis for Socialist Accounting On Monday, April 28th, we will discuss with DIE LINKE Neukölln the concept of labor time accounting as the foundation for a decentralized, self-managed planned economy. After a brief presentation by us, we will move into the joint discussion. The event is open
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How Can Economic Cooperation Work Without Exploitation – Collectively and Self-Managed? Our working hours app is a web application that implements the theory of labor-time accounting in technical form. It enables self-managed enterprises to organize their production in a connected, planned economy based on the labor time contributed. But how does this work in practice?
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Several reading circles are currently exploring the “Basic Principles” – and to go along with that, we’re offering the classic text together with a companion reading group booklet. The booklet helps you navigate the old-style writing and serves as a helpful reading aid. For next to nothing – or as a small donation – we’ll
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Since March 1st, we’ve rented our own office space! It’s located in the publishing building of Neues Deutschland (nd) near Ostbahnhof. We’ll be working there together, holding meetings, setting up a small library on labor-time accounting, and much more. To cover the rent and support our other activities, we would greatly appreciate donations or supporting
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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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