My presentation at the first conference of the International Network of Democratic Economic Planning (INDEP) is available (DE and EN downloads below).
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Dimensions of Planning in Commonism
The first conference of the International Network of Democratic Economic Planning (INDEP) will be held during a bigger conference, the SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) 2025: online on July 3rd and in person in Montréal, Québec, from July 9th to July 12th. The conference will feature 14 panels and 39 presenters. The title of INDEP’s conference is Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World, you can find the conference schedule on INDEP’s website.
I will present my ideas on the Dimensions of Planning in Commonism during the online part of the INDEP conference on thursday, July 3rd at 4 pm (CEST). Although I cannot attend the in-person conference in Canada, the advantage for others is that the virtual talks are open to the public. To receive the Zoom link, please register here.
Expert Workshop on Planning in Vienna
A two-day expert workshop on 29-30 November 2024 at WU Vienna brings together leading scholars to explore democratic economic planning as a response to planetary crises. The event will feature discussions on ecological planning, alternative economic coordination, directed technological change and societal design.
(mehr …)Planning in Montpellier
EN (DE below) In this short article I would like to describe my impressions of the sub-conference “Planning, democracy and postcapitalism” as part of the annual conference of the French Association for Political Economy (Association française d’économie politique). I was invited to present a money/value/exchange-critical view. Here are the slides of my presentation (audio will hopefully follow…).
(mehr …)Planning of societal re/production in a commonist society
Presentation online on 15 March 2024. Download the presentation slides (PDF) and the audio recording (MP3).
Update: On 20 March 2024 Simon and Stefan gave a double talk on “The Case for Commonism” and “Distributed Commonist Planning”. Here is the video recording:
(mehr …)Antiauthoritarian Communism and Postmonetary Alternatives
Online-Workshop, 11th of November
On saturday, 11.11.2023, AKUT invites you to an Online Workshop on Antiauthoritarian Communism and Postmonetary Alternatives with Anitra Nelson, Friederike Habermann, John Holloway and others. Feel free to distribute the invitation.
Homepage: https://commonism.org/conference2023/
Time: 11.11.2023, 08:30am – 05:00pm EST / 2:30pm CET – 11:00pm CET
Participation link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9195321982?pwd=ygyrZes2ep7DJLIabbbkaOkLLy7KqS.1; Meeting-ID: 919 532 1982
(mehr …)Democratic Economic Planning
Virtual seminar series hosted by the Research Center on Social Innovation and Transformation, Ottawa, Canada. Registration: stremblay (at) ustpaul.ca
Principles AKUT/Grundsätze AKUT
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AKUT was founded. These are its principles:
The Association Critique Utopia Transformation (AKUT) develops possibilities for a society free of domination and deals with the ways to get there. At the moment we are working in three fields: joint theoretical work on utopia and transformation, educational work (brochures, videos, conferences, workshops) and strategic debates.
(mehr …)Make Capitalism History
Out now: »Make Capitalism History. A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society« by Simon Sutterlütti & Stefan Meretz.
This open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left’s need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce real social and ecological change, and the need to look beyond traditional ideas of reform and revolution. The book discusses how a socio-economic organisation beyond money, wage labour, patriarchal division of work and centralised state planning may look like. It develops an approach to societal transformation based on seed forms of commons practices and social movements. This book will be relevant to activists, students and researchers interested in fundamental social change, political economy and feminist and Marxist economics.
The ,Commoning System‘ goes Global
At least, we are trying.
As first steps, we have translated our concept presentation into English and we are working on integrating the ValueFlows vocabulary into it. ValueFlows, noted at the point, is a really exciting project. It grew out of network resource planning software that has amazing similarities to our concept, but was designed as a monolith. To break down this monolith, they initiated a discussion between different open source economics projects and quickly realized that there was a lack of a common language between these projects – both on a human and technical level. The ValueFlows vocabluar is trying to open up communication here. It’s beautiful and is already being used in projects like HoloREA and Bonfire. There is a brief and worth to read article about that topic.
Links to our english presentation: peertube / youtube
The german version, the usual call for activism and the current version of the concept below.
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