On the weekend of April 22 and 23, a workshop organized by RLS Saxony will take place in Leipzig on the theme Council Communism vs. Commonism. Members of IDA will engage in a debate with representatives of commons theory. We will also take a closer look at existing experiments in grassroots democratic self-organization—such as the […]
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On May 4 we are hosting an evening at Baiz with Günther Sandleben, and we look forward to seeing you there! Working time instead of money – how businesses can calculate using working hours. “Everything that constitutes a liberated society already exists in some form, we only need to set the existing elements free,” is
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After the well-attended events in Lichtenberg, Wedding, and Kreuzberg, we are very excited to now be able to hold our introductory lecture on working time accounting in Neukölln. It will take place on January 28th at 7 PM at the Kiezladen on Sonnenallee 154. Following the lecture, discussions and conversations can continue at a nearby
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From November 2021 to July 2022, we read The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution together. We are now publishing our reading group notes from this circle as a booklet. You can download them here in German.
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Some questions about labour time calculation come up again and again: Why are certificates not money? Does labour time calculation mean forced labour? Isn’t the principle “one hour is one hour” unfair? That’s why we created an FAQ in which we try to answer some of the most common questions. The document is meant to
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In our effort to help move the entire state machinery to where it belongs – into the Museum of Antiquities – we are, fittingly, inviting you tomorrow to the Museum of Capitalism. As usual, we will distribute copies of The Fundamental Principles for a donation, and for the first time we will also have the
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We’re excited to announce our next introductory lecture! After Lichtenberg and Wedding, we’ll be in Kreuzberg on December 10, hosted by the Museum of Capitalism. Facebook: https://fb.me/e/2sNuuoxsg
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What does labor time accounting mean, and why do we need it in a post-capitalist society? What role do labor certificates, production plans, money accounts, workers’ councils, and public accounting play? We’d like to discuss these and other questions with you on Saturday, October 22, 2022, at 7 p.m. at Kiezhaus Agnes Reinhold in Wedding.
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The foundational text on labor time accounting, The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution (1935), has now been published by Red & Black Books for free download. A printed edition is available, for example, from Syndikat-A. In English, there is currently a 19-part podcast series about the Fundamental Principles. The creators of the podcast
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Our association has written a collective review of Guenther Sandleben’s book on labour time calculation. Note: This text was translated using AI due to time constraints. Review: Günther Sandleben: Society After Money. Labor-Time Calculation as an Alternative The book by Günther Sandleben, recently published by PapyRossa, is an important contribution to recent debates on post-capitalist
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