As every month, we would like to share some activities and updates with you. First, a quick personal update:
- We are very pleased to announce the publication of a text by Guenther Sandleben as a brochure. The text is based on a lecture he gave at our invitation last year, titled “Working Time Instead of Money: How Companies Can Calculate with Working Time”. The text in german language illustrates that working-time accounting is not an abstract utopia but can actually be realized—and much of what is needed for it already exists.
- From our discussion with Dario Azzellini on workers’ councils and working-time accounting, we’ve published an audio recording.
- On our blog, we’ve added a new section titled “Bibliography”, where we collect literature on working-time accounting. Some of the titles are available online.
- Hermann Lueer gave a lecture in german language on “The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution” in early May. He covered the history of the “Group of International Communists”, their main work, and widespread objections to working-time accounting. We are publishing the manuscript of his lecture on our blog.
- On June 21, we’ll have our regular meetup at Kleinod in Neukölln. As always, we look forward to meeting new faces!
We’d also like to draw your attention to the following publications and events:
Every month, the LeSabot bookstore in Bonn hosts an “open discussion group on socialist planned economies.” On June 15, there will be a presentation on working-time accounting.
A new website has been launched that presents different models of democratic planned economies.
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences hosted a lecture on “The Economy of Time in Marx.”
The latest issue of Prokla magazine focuses on democratic planned economies. Unfortunately, the “important reference point” and the “still unmet desideratum” of working-time accounting is only mentioned briefly in the editorial.
In nd, Raul Zelik writes about how the two cooperative newspapers, nd and WOZ, exchanged 200 hours to develop the nd.Digital app. This is described as “a micro-example of how non-capitalist economies function.”
A thought-provoking article has been published in Jacobin magazine about the strategic significance of solidarity economy and cooperatives for a socialist movement.