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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As every month, we would like to share some activities and news with you: We have now compiled all the articles from Jungle World’s 2023 discussion series on working time accounting into a brochure and added a foreword. Definitely worth reading to get an overview of the debate! Contributions by Felix Klopotek, Philip Broistedt &
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All articles from Jungle World’s 2023 discussion series on working time accounting have now been compiled into a brochure and provided with a foreword. Definitely worth reading if you want to get an overview of the discussion! Contributions by Felix Klopotek, Philip Broistedt & Christian Hofmann, Julian Bierwirth, Simon Sutterlütti, Jonna Klick, Hermann Lueer, ourselves,
“Disco brochure published” Read More »
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, It might be time again to share with you what’s currently happening in our association: Internal Use of the Working Time AppWe have decided to use our working time app in the day-to-day operations of the association in order to experiment with working time accounting. Last Wednesday we held an internal workshop where
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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Both Aníbal and Fredo responded quite quickly to our strategy paper, which we wrote partly as a reaction to their earlier criticisms of some of our positions (see link: https://nextcloud.arbeitszeitrechnung.org/s/ofo5DtsR4YEEetZ )We would like to point to these critiques here on our blog, since we explicitly welcome critical debate on the practical-political questions surrounding labor-time accounting
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In the latest episode of the podcast “Prosperity for All” (in German), labour time calculation – and our association – are discussed. We’re happy about it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP0ONd0p5RE&t=177s
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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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