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Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar on the Monetary Commons
2026/02/01
Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar discuss the Monetary Commons.
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Shownotes
Yanis’ website:
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/
Raphael’s website:
https://rarar.com/
Iza Romanowska at Aarhus University:
https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/iza-romanowska/
Hirad’s website:
https://hiradsab.com/
the Monetary Commons website:
https://monetarycommons.com/
Varoufakis, Y. (2024). Technofeudalism. What Killed Capitalism. Vintage Books.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
Varoufakis, Y. (2021). Another Now. Melville House.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/another-now/
on the 2025 German ‘Sondervermögen’/‘The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality’:
https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/EN/Issues/Public-Finances/SVIK/special-fund-infrastructure-and-climate-neutrality.html
on Wolfgang Schäuble:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The first 5,000 Years. Melville House.
https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
on IOU’s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOU
on the Money Market Multiplier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier
on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s argument of the impossibility of a private language:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
on the Digital Renminbi in China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi
on Universal Basic Income (UBI):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income
Berry, C. (2023). The Case for a Universal Basic Dividend. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series 25.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sites/bartlett/files/berry_c_2023._the_case_for_a_universal_basic_dividend.pdf
on fiat money:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
Varoufakis, Y. (2013). Bitcoin and the Dangerous Fantasy of ‘Apolitical’ Money.
https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/
on the case of Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge, being sanctioned by the US:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanctioned-by-the-us-you-are-effectively-blacklisted-by-much-of-the-world-s-banking-system_6747628_4.html
on the distributed ledger technology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledger
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion
McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools
Sorg, C. (2025). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578
on citizen’s assemblies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly
on the International Monetary Fund (IMF):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund
on the Digital Euro:
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
the essay that includes the quote by Peter Thiel on the incompatibility of liberalism/capitalism and democracy:
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
on the Meidner Plan:
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/sweden-socialism-rehn-meidner-plan
on the Trump administration buying 10% of Intel shares:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-economic-and-policy-experts-think-about-the-u-s-governments-stake-in-intel
on Cloud Capital (see also Yanis’ ‘Technofeudalism’ book):
https://youtu.be/3gsGvgrsyOU?si=fQwW5BEHBFDvB980
on Ursula K. Le Guin:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
the speech including the mentioned quote by her:
https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?si=VCGW4OoDqY0HXa2E
on the 1973 Coup in Chile:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
on Fernando Haddad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Haddad
on pix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)
on the 2008 financial crisis in Iceland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_financial_crisis
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
S02E34 | tante zu Crypto-Imaginaries und alternativen technologischen Infrastrukturen
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e34-tante-zu-crypto-imaginaries-und-alternativen-technologischen-infrastrukturen/
S02E28 | Marcus Meindel zum Global Commoning System
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S01E59 | Joscha Wullweber zu Zentralbankkapitalismus
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e59-joscha-wullweber-zu-zentralbankkapitalismus/
S01E34 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 2)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e34-aaron-sahr-zu-monetaerer-souveraenitaet-und-modern-monetary-theory-teil-2/
S01E33 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 1)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e33-aaron-sahr-zu-monetaerer-souveraenitaet-und-modern-monetary-theory-teil-1/
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Kim Stanley Robinson on Real Utopian Futures
2026/01/04
Kim Stanley Robinson discusses Real Utopian Futures.
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Shownotes
The reference page on Kim Stanley Robinson, his works, interviews, talks, etc. (including a discussion forum):
https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/
Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit Books.
https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/the-ministry-for-the-future/9780356508863/
Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit Books.
https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/new-york-2140/9780356508788/
Robinson, K. S. (1988). The Gold Coast. Macmillan.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312890377/thegoldcoast/
Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3.
https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline
Blumenfeld, J. (2022). Climate Barbarism. Adapting to a wrong World. Constellations, 30, 162–178.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8675.12596
the quoted Kohei Saito video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/WnvhD7p651M?si=SdfPftKOCJM6MS9j
the lecture in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about “futurecide” and “preemptive capitulation”:
https://youtu.be/HpzXkpx29S4?si=PVlOE53Hj5-BZR5B
reporting on and summary of the talk:
https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/article/the-war-on-science-is-here-kim-stanley-robinson-says-its-just-the-beginning/
Löwy, M. (2005). What is Ecosocialism? Capitalism Nature Socialism, 16(2), 15–24.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455750500108237
for an overview of the history and different schools of Ecomarxist/Ecosocialist theory:
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andreas-malm/
on Anna Kornbluh:
http://www.annakornbluh.com/
on Mass Extinction Events:
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and-are-we-facing-a-sixth-one.html
Dressler, A. (2025). You have 100 ‘Energy Slaves’. The Climate Brink.
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/you-have-100-energy-slaves
on the 30 by 30 Biodiversity Goal:
https://www.cop28.com/en/thought-leadership/The-30x30-Biodiversity-Goal-at-COP28
the International Maritime Organization:
https://www.imo.org/
on the ‘Half-Earth Project’:
https://eowilsonfoundation.org/what-is-the-half-earth-project/
Wilson, E. O. (2016). Half-Earth. Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Norton Books.
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631492525
Pendergrass, D. & Vettese, T. (2022). Half-Earth Socialism. A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2650-half-earth-socialism
one of the many interviews/talks in which Kim Stanley Robinson talks about science fiction as the realism of our times:
https://youtu.be/p1wNhc46xjE?si=hOdKuwRQhef-9tLs
on the Turing Test:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
on Neoliberalism attaching itself to demands of the New Left:
Boltanski, L. & Chiapello, E. (2018). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1980-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism
on Friedrich Hayek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Williams, R. (2015). Structures of Feeling. In: D. Sharma & F. Tygstrup (Ed.), Structures of Feeling. Affectivity and the Study of Culture (pp. 20-26).
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110365481.20/html
on Keynesianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
Vogl, J. (2017). The Ascendancy of Finance. Polity Press.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-ascendancy-of-finance--9781509509294
Graeber, D. (2011). Debt. The First 5,000 Years. Melville House.
https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
on Thomas Piketty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty
on Gabriel Zucman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Zucman
on the ‘Zucman tax’: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2025/09/23/zucman-tax-what-the-proposed-wealth-tax-would-mean-for-france_6745653_8.html
on Carbon Taxes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax
Sorg, C. (2023). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578
Sarkar, S. (2024). The Carbon Coin. An Eco-Speculative Approach to Decarbonisation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future. Green Letters, 28(4), 297–310.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14688417.2025.2483998
A policy proposal on ‘Carbon Reward’ from the same researcher whose earlier policy work inspired the ‘Carbon Coin’ idea in The Ministry for the Future:
https://deltonchen.substack.com/p/new-economic-blueprint-for-resolving
see also:
https://globalcarbonreward.org/newsletters/carbon-coin/
on Quantitative Easing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
on Carbon Drawdown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration
on Nicolas Stern:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern,_Baron_Stern_of_Brentford
on the Democratic Socialists of America:
https://www.dsausa.org/
the Network for Greening the Financial System:
https://www.ngfs.net/en
on COP30 in Belém:
https://unfccc.int/cop30
Solnit, R. (2022). Orwell’s Roses. Penguin.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607057/orwells-roses-by-rebecca-solnit/
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e44-anna-kornbluh-on-climate-counteraesthetics/
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
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S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation
2025/12/21
Rabea Berfelde discusses socialisation, its history and current socialisation movements.
Future Histories LIVE.
This episode is part of the ‘Future Histories LIVE’ format. For this, individual episodes are recoded live – that is, in front of an audience – at irregular intervals. This episode was recorded on August 6th, during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland, titled “Economics as Resistance. Heterodox Strategies on Housing, Energy, and Agriculture against the New Right”.
Shownotes
Rabea at the Center for Social Critique of the Humboldt University Berlin:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/people/rabea-berfelde/
the Socialization in Theory and Practice research project:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/projects/socialization-in-theory-and-practice/
the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:
https://resuso.ch/
Berfelde, R., & Möller, P. (2025). (Re)-Imagining Housing as an Infrastructure for Social Reproduction. In J. Groos & C. Sorg (Eds.), Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
Berfelde, R. et al. (2024). Für eine Linke mit Plan. Luxemburg. Gesellschaftsanalyse und Linke Praxis. 1/2024.
https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/fuer-eine-linke-mit-plan/
Berfelde, R. & Heeg, S. (2024). Struggling with and through Knowledge Production: The Campaign ‘Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co.’s’ Attempt at Housing Definancialisation in Berlin. Critical Housing Analysis 11 (1): 105-114.
https://www.housing-critical.com/home-page-1/struggling-with-and-through-knowledge-productio
Berfelde, R., & Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Von der Vergesellschaftung zur Planung und wieder zurück: Über alte und neue Debatten um Wirtschaftsplanung und Vergesellschaftung. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 54 (215), 177–193.
https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/2119
Berfelde, R., & Möller, P. (2023). Radikaldemokratische Planung der Wohnraumversorgung? Das Vergesellschaftungskonzept von »Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen«. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 53 (212), 561–577.
https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/2049
on the Bavarian Soviet/Council Republic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic
on the German revolution of 1918-19:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolution_of_1918%E2%80%931919
Backhaus, J., Chaloupek, G., & Frambach, H. A. (2019). The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization. Springer.
https://www.springerprofessional.de/the-first-socialization-debate-1918-and-early-efforts-towards-so/16761374
on Otto Neurath:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath
Chaloupek, G. (2007). Otto Neurath's Concepts of Socialization and Economic Calculation and his Socialist Critics. In: Nemeth, E., Schmitz, S.W., Uebel, T.E. (eds.) Otto Neurath's Economics in Context. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 13. Springer.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-6905-5_4
on Karl Korsch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Korsch
on Otto Bauer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Bauer
Meyer, N. (2023). Otto Bauer on the Long Transition to Socialism. Left Notes.
https://www.left-notes.com/p/otto-bauer-long-transition-to-socialism
on Karl Kautsky:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kautsky
Vrousalis, N. (2018). Council Democracy and the Socialisation Dilemma. In: Muldoon, J. (ed.) Council Democracy. Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics. Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351205634-5/council-democracy-socialisation-dilemma-nicholas-vrousalis
Blumenfeld, J. (2023). What was socialization? A look back.
https://sfb294-eigentum.de/en/blog/what-was-socialization-a-look-back/
Critical Theory Network et al. (2024). 11 Theses on Socialisation.
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/interventions/11-theses-on-socialisation/
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism – 1. New Left Review. 153 May-June 2025.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism – 2. New Left Review. 154 July-August 2025.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2
Muldoon, J. (ed.) (2018). Council Democracy. Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics. Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781351205634/council-democracy-james-muldoon
on Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen (the Berlin Housing Campagin):
https://dwenteignen.de/en
Hoffrogge, R. (2024). Commons and Constitution: historical and legal roots of the German socialization movement:
https://sfb294-eigentum.de/de/blog/commons-and-constitution-historical-and-legal-roots-of-the-german-socialization-movement/
for projects on socialization in different sectors see also:
https://communia.de/en/
communia (2024). Socialising Energy. Lessons from radical housing campaigns in Germany. In: Buxton, N. (ed.) (2024). Energy, Power and Transition. Transnational Institute.
https://www.tni.org/files/2024-03/State%20of%20Power%202024-web.pdf
on the legal assessment of socialising the energy sector in Germany:
https://communia.de/energiekonzerne-enteignen-das-geht/
article 15 in the constitution of Germany:
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_15.html
for the draft of the socialisation law by the Berlin Housing Campaign see here:
https://dwenteignen.de/en/material
the Ackersyndikat:
https://ackersyndikat.org/
RWE & Co Enteignen:
https://rwe-enteignen.de/
Hamburg Enteignet:
https://hamburg-enteignet.de/
the socialist calculation debate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_calculation_debate
the first socialisation conference 2022:
https://communia.de/en/project/socialization-conference-october-2022/
the second socialisation conference 2024:
https://communia.de/en/project/lets-socialize-socialization-for-climate-justice/
on anti-fascist economics:
https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/discover/anti-fascist-economics/
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S02E23 | Nina Scholz zu den wunden Punkten von Google, Amazon, Deutsche Wohnen & Co.
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e23-nina-scholz-zu-den-wunden-punkten-von-google-amazon-deutsche-wohnen-co/
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Aaron Benanav | Beyond Capitalism II
2025/11/09
Aaron Benanav discusses the second part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in the New Left Review. In this part he lays out the institutional design of his proposal of a multi-criterial economy.
Shownotes
Aaron at Cornell University:
https://cals.cornell.edu/people/aaron-benanav
Aaron’s personal website:
https://www.aaronbenanav.com/
Access to Aaron's paywalled publications:
https://www.aaronbenanav.com/papers
Mailing List to join the Movement for Multi-Dimensional Economics:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUF7MZ2jQJXY_wHKn5xSIo-_L0tkMO-SG079sa5lGhRJTgqg/viewform
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—1. New Left Review, Issue 153, 65–128.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—2. New Left Review, Issue 154, 97–143.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2
Benanv, A. (2020). Automation and the Future of Work. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2682-automation-and-the-future-of-work
on economic stagnation, see especially chapter 3, “In the Shadow of Stagnation”.
on Marx’s concept of the Value-Form:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm
Moore, J.W. & Patel, R. (2020). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things
on the abstract domination of capitalism:
Postone, M. (1993). Time, Labor and Social Domination. A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory. Cambridge University Press.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Moishe%20Postone%20-%20Time,%20Labor,%20and%20Social%20Domination.pdf
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion
Leipold, B. (2024). Citizen Marx. Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205236/citizen-marx
on GDP (Gross Domestic Product):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
on the Five-Year Plans in the Soviet Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union
Katsenelinboigen, A. (1977). Coloured Markets in the Soviet Union. Soviet Studies. Vol. 29, No.1. 62-85.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/150728
Uvalić, M. (2018). The Rise and Fall of Market Socialism in Yugoslavia.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331223694_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Market_Socialism_in_Yugoslavia
on Friedrich Hayek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review, 35(4), 519–530.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1809376
on the Pareto Optimum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
on Rational Choice Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_model
on Behavioral Economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
on Otto Neurath:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath
on Neurath’s technocratic tendencies:
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/technocratic-socialism-otto-neurath-utopianism-capitalism
on Joseph Raz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Raz
on Utilitarianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
on the Capability Approach by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach
on the Human Development Index (HDI):
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI
on the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs):
https://sdgs.un.org/goals
on Multi-Objective Optimization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization
Saros, D. E. (2014). Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and-the-Transition-to-Socialism/Saros/p/book/9780415742924
on Neoclassical Economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_economics
on Citizen Assemblies and Sortition:
https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/
on John Stuart Mill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
Mill, J. S. (2011). On Liberty. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/on-liberty/62EC27F1E66E2BCBA29DDCD5294B3DE0
McCabe, H. (2021). John Stuart Mill, Socialist. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
https://www.mqup.ca/john-stuart-mill--socialist-products-9780228005742.php
on Degrowth:
https://degrowth.info/
on Nick Land and Right Accelerationism:
https://youtu.be/lrOVKHg_PJQ?si=Q4oFbaM1p4fhcWP0
on Left Accelerationism:
https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/
Devine, P. (2002). Participatory Planning through Negotiated Coordination. Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1, 72-85.
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001?journalCode=siso
on Oskar R. Lange:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_R._Lange
on Lange’s neoclassical approach to Socialism:
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/oskar-lange-neoclassical-marxism-limits-of-capitalism-economic-theory
Kowalik, T. (1990). Lange-Lerner Mechanism. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds). Problems of the Planned Economy. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20863-0_21
on Joseph Schumpeters concept of Creative Destruction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Shaikh, A. (2016). Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crises. Oxford Academic.
https://academic.oup.com/book/1464
Kornai, J. (1980). “Hard” and “Soft” Budget Constraint. Acta Oeconomica, 25(3/4), 231–245.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40728773
on the Cobb-Douglas Production Function:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2%80%93Douglas_production_function
on Adam Smith:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
Lutosch, H. (2025). Embracing the Small Stuff. Caring for Children in a Liberated Society. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
Hahnel, R. (2021). Democratic Economic Planning. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320
Cockshott, P. & Cottrell, A. (1993). Towards a New Socialism. Spokesman.
https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf
on Universal Basic Services (UBS):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_services
https://autonomy.work/ubs-hub/
Fraser, N. & Sorg, C. (2025). Socialism, Planning and the Relativity of Dirt. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
on Milton Friedman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
on John Maynard Keynes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
Aaron on what to learn from radical Keynesianism for a transitionary Program:
Benanav, A. & Henwood, D. (2025). Behind the News. Beyond the Capitalist Economy w/ Aaron Benanav.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2diIiFkkM4x7MoZhi9e0tx
on Socializing Finance:
McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E47 | Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e47-jason-w-moore-on-socialism-in-the-web-of-life/
S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e04-tim-platenkamp-on-republican-socialism-general-planning-and-parametric-control/
S02E33 | Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e33-pat-devine-on-negotiated-coordination/
S03E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/
S01E32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/
S02E31 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/
---
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
---
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Aaron Benanav | Beyond Capitalism I
2025/10/26
Aaron Benanav discusses the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in the New Left Review. In this part he lays the groundwork for his proposal of a multi-criterial economy.
SASE - Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics:
https://sase.org/
SASE Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism (including CfP):
https://sase.org/networks/i-alternatives-to-capitalism/
Shownotes
Aaron at Cornell University:
https://cals.cornell.edu/people/aaron-benanav
Aaron’s personal website:
https://www.aaronbenanav.com/
Access to Aaron's paywalled publications:
https://www.aaronbenanav.com/papers
Mailing List to join the Movement for Multi-Dimensional Economics:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUF7MZ2jQJXY_wHKn5xSIo-_L0tkMO-SG079sa5lGhRJTgqg/viewform
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—1. New Left Review, Issue 153, 65–128.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—2. New Left Review, Issue 154, 97–143.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2
Benanv, A. (2020). Automation and the Future of Work. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2682-automation-and-the-future-of-work
on economic stagnation, see especially chapter 3, “In the Shadow of Stagnation”.
on Marx’s concept of the Value-Form:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm
Moore, J.W. & Patel, R. (2020). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things
on the abstract domination of capitalism:
Postone, M. (1993). Time, Labor and Social Domination. A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory. Cambridge University Press.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Moishe%20Postone%20-%20Time,%20Labor,%20and%20Social%20Domination.pdf
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion
Leipold, B. (2024). Citizen Marx. Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205236/citizen-marx
on GDP (Gross Domestic Product):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
on the Five-Year Plans in the Soviet Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union
Katsenelinboigen, A. (1977). Coloured Markets in the Soviet Union. Soviet Studies. Vol. 29, No.1. 62-85.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/150728
Uvalić, M. (2018). The Rise and Fall of Market Socialism in Yugoslavia.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331223694_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Market_Socialism_in_Yugoslavia
on Friedrich Hayek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review, 35(4), 519–530.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1809376
on the Pareto Optimum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
on Rational Choice Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_model
on Behavioral Economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
on Otto Neurath:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath
on Neurath’s technocratic tendencies:
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/technocratic-socialism-otto-neurath-utopianism-capitalism
on Joseph Raz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Raz
on Utilitarianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
on the Capability Approach by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach
on the Human Development Index (HDI):
https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI
on the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs):
https://sdgs.un.org/goals
on Multi-Objective Optimization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization
Saros, D. E. (2014). Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and-the-Transition-to-Socialism/Saros/p/book/9780415742924
on Neoclassical Economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_economics
on Citizen Assemblies and Sortition:
https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/
on John Stuart Mill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
Mill, J. S. (2011). On Liberty. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/on-liberty/62EC27F1E66E2BCBA29DDCD5294B3DE0
McCabe, H. (2021). John Stuart Mill, Socialist. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
https://www.mqup.ca/john-stuart-mill--socialist-products-9780228005742.php
on Degrowth:
https://degrowth.info/
on Nick Land and Right Accelerationism:
https://youtu.be/lrOVKHg_PJQ?si=Q4oFbaM1p4fhcWP0
on Left Accelerationism:
https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/
Devine, P. (2002). Participatory Planning through Negotiated Coordination. Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1, 72-85.
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001?journalCode=siso
on Oskar R. Lange:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_R._Lange
on Lange’s neoclassical approach to Socialism:
https://jacobin.com/2022/10/oskar-lange-neoclassical-marxism-limits-of-capitalism-economic-theory
Kowalik, T. (1990). Lange-Lerner Mechanism. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds). Problems of the Planned Economy. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20863-0_21
on Joseph Schumpeters concept of Creative Destruction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Shaikh, A. (2016). Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crises. Oxford Academic.
https://academic.oup.com/book/1464
Kornai, J. (1980). “Hard” and “Soft” Budget Constraint. Acta Oeconomica, 25(3/4), 231–245.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40728773
on the Cobb-Douglas Production Function:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2%80%93Douglas_production_function
on Adam Smith:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
Lutosch, H. (2025). Embracing the Small Stuff. Caring for Children in a Liberated Society. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
Hahnel, R. (2021). Democratic Economic Planning. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320
Cockshott, P. & Cottrell, A. (1993). Towards a New Socialism. Spokesman.
https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf
on Universal Basic Services (UBS):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_services
https://autonomy.work/ubs-hub/
Fraser, N. & Sorg, C. (2025). Socialism, Planning and the Relativity of Dirt. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
on Milton Friedman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
on John Maynard Keynes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes
Aaron on what to learn from radical Keynesianism for a transitionary Program:
Benanav, A. & Henwood, D. (2025). Behind the News. Beyond the Capitalist Economy w/ Aaron Benanav.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2diIiFkkM4x7MoZhi9e0tx
on Socializing Finance:
McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E47 | Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e47-jason-w-moore-on-socialism-in-the-web-of-life/
S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e04-tim-platenkamp-on-republican-socialism-general-planning-and-parametric-control/
S02E33 | Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e33-pat-devine-on-negotiated-coordination/
S03E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/
S01E32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/
S02E31 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1)
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/
---
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
---
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Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance
2025/09/27
Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell discuss Radical Abundance, transition and public-commons partnerships.
Shownotes
Heron, K., Milburn, K., Russell, B. (2025). Radical Abundance. How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/radical-abundance/
Kai Heron at Lancaster University:
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/kai-heron
Keir Milburn’s contributions at Novara Media:
https://novaramedia.com/contributor/keir-milburn/
Bertie Russell at the Autonomous University of Barcelona:
https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/bertie-thomas-russell
Abundance (the collective):
https://www.in-abundance.org/
on Marta Harnecker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_Harnecker
on Michael A. Lebowitz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Lebowitz
Lebowitz, M. A. (2013). Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism. Socialist Project.
https://socialistproject.ca/2013/09/b877/
on Yevgeni Preobrazhensky:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeni_Preobrazhensky
Preobrazhensky, Y. (1965). The New Economics. Oxford University Press.
https://files.libcom.org/files/%5bPreobrazhensky%2C_Evgeny_Alekseevich%5d_The_New_Econo(BookZZ.org).pdf
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
on Public-Commons Partnerships:
https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-a-public-commons-parntership
https://www.in-abundance.org/reports/public-common-partnerships-building-new-circuits-of-collective-ownership
for case studies on Public-Commons Partnerships, see:
https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies
on Public-Private Partnerships:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%E2%80%93private_partnership
on council farms in the UK:
https://www.cpre.org.uk/explainer/county-farms-explainer/
Common Wealth (the organization):
https://www.common-wealth.org/
Common Wealth’s recent project on privatization and Public-Private Partnerships in the UK:
https://www.common-wealth.org/interactive/who-owns-britain/home
on Che Guevara:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara
on Stuart Hall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
on Hugo Chávez:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez
Gilbert, C. (2023). Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and its Socialist Project. Monthly Review Press.
https://monthlyreview.org/9781685900243/
on agroecology:
https://agroecology-coalition.org/what-is-agroecology/
SCOP-TI:
https://www.scop-ti.info/
the Berlin Housing Campaign:
https://dwenteignen.de/en
on the Wards Corner Market:
https://www.in-abundance.org/case-studies/wards-corner
Amarnath, S. et al. (2023): Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/
on the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States
on marronage communities and their role in slave rebellions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons
on the coal strikes in Appalachia in the late 19th and early 20th century:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Wars
on the Black Panther Party:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
on SYRIZA and their development:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rethinking-populism/the-systemic-metamorphosis-of-greeces-once-radical-left-wing-syriza-party/
on Erik Olin Wright’s “Transition Troughs” concept, see chapter 9 and 10 of:
Wright, E. O. (2010). Envisioning Real Utopias. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2143-envisioning-real-utopias
the “Abundance” report on the social property of water in the UK:
https://www.in-abundance.org/latest/beyond-bailouts
on the 2023 strike in France where workers cut energy to certain sectors:
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/03/30/robin-hood-electricians-and-oil-blockades-the-radical-tactics-of-frances-striking-energy-w
van Dyk, S. & Haubner, T. (2021). Community-Kapitalismus. Hamburger Edition.
https://www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-books/artikel-detail/community-kapitalismus/
van Dyk, S. (2018). Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism. Work, Employment and Society, 32(3), 528-545.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663
on municipalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalism
Bianchi, I. & Russell, B. (eds.) (2026). Radical Municipalism. The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services. Bristol University Press. (forthcoming)
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/radical-municipalism
on the Occupy Movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement
on Climateflation:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/26/tuesday-briefing-how-climateflation-is-pushing-food-prices-ever-higher-and-changing-how-we-eat
on hernani burujabe (the tripartite economic planning system in the city of Hernani):
https://hernaniburujabe.eus/es/que-es/
Egia-Olaizola, A., Villalba-Eguiluz, U. and Gainza, X. (2025), Beyond the New Municipalism. Towards Post-Capitalist Territorial Sovereignty in the Case of Hernani Burujabe. Antipode, 57: 1448-1469.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.70030
on the Commons (concept):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons
on Evergreening:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreening
Klein, E. & Thompson, D. (2025). Abundance. Avid Reader Press.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abundance/Ezra-Klein/9781668023488
on Marx’s concept of the realm of necessity and freedom:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/capital/vol3-ch48.htm
on David Graeber:
https://davidgraeber.org/
Suits, B. (2005). The Grasshopper. Games, Life and Utopia. Broadview Press.
https://kevinjpatton.com/teaching/phil_3230/readings/Bernard%20Suits%20-%20The%20Grasshopper.pdf
on the socialist ecomodernism and degrowth debate:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2023-01-23/ecomodernism-on-its-own-terms/
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/
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S02E13 | Tine Haubner und Silke van Dyk zu Community-Kapitalismus
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e13-tine-haubner-und-silke-van-dyk-zu-community-kapitalismus/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
2025/09/14
Jason W. Moore discusses the problematic history of the nature-society divide, his alternative world-ecology approach and the challenges of building socialism.
Shownotes
Jason’s personal website:
https://jasonwmoore.com/
Jason at Binghamtom University:
https://www.binghamton.edu/sociology/faculty/profile.html?id=jwmoore
The World-Ecology Research Collective:
https://worldecologynetwork.wordpress.com/
https://www.researchgate.net/lab/World-Ecology-Research-Collective-Jason-W-Moore
Moore, J. W., & Patel, R. (2020). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things
Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life. Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
for an overview of different approaches to conceptualizing society/capitalism and nature:
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andreas-malm/
on Andreas Malm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Malm
Malm, A. (2018). The Progress of this Storm. Nature and Society in a Warming World. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/574-the-progress-of-this-storm
Malm, A. (2016). Fossil Capital. The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/135-fossil-capital
Federici, S. (2004). Caliban and the Witch. Autonomedia.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Caliban%20and%20the%20Witch.pdf
on Ernst Haeckel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel
see also the chapter on Haeckel and the German Monist League in:
Gasman, D. (2017). The scientific Origins of National Socialism. Routledge.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315134789/scientific-origins-national-socialism-daniel-gasman
on Actor-Network Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory
on Bruno Latour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour
on John Bellamy Foster:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bellamy_Foster
Bellamy, J. F. (2000) Marx’s Ecology. Materialism and Nature. Monthly Review Press.
https://ia904504.us.archive.org/9/items/526394/John%20Bellamy%20Foster.%20Marx%27s%20Ecology..pdf
on Kohei Saito:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohei_Saito
on Pietro Verri:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Verri
Marx, K. (1976). Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. Volume One. Penguin.
https://www.surplusvalue.org.au/Marxism/Capital%20-%20Vol.%201%20Penguin.pdf
Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
Marx’s Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm
Marx’s and Engel’s German Ideology:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/
Marx’s Capital Vol. 3.:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/
Marx’s On The Jewish Question:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/
on Alfred Sohn-Rethel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sohn-Rethel
Machado, C. & Miguel, N. (2013). The Money of the Mind and the God of Commodities. The real abstraction according to Sohn-Rethel.
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/48961/1/MPRA_paper_48961.pdf
on Donna Haraway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
on the “Special Period” in Cuba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period
on James Lovelock:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock
Lovelock, J. (1979). Gaia. A New Look at Life on Earth. Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/gaia-9780198784883?cc=de&lang=en&#
on “Social metabolism”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_metabolism
on Raymond Williams:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Williams
Smele, J. D. (2016). The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Ten Years that Shook the World. Hurst.
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-russian-civil-wars-1916-1926/
Engel-Di Mauro, S. (2021). Socialist States and the Environment. Lessons for Eco-Socialist Futures. Pluto Press.
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340418/socialist-states-and-the-environment/
Amin, S. (1990). Delinking. Towards a Polycentric World. Zed Books.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/delinking-9780862328030/
on material and energy flow accounting:
see the chapter on that topic in:
Bartelmus, P. (2008). Quantitative Eco-nomics. How sustainable are our economies. Springer.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-6966-6
Zeug, W. (2025). INDEP talk with Walther Zeug: Democratic Economic Planning through Cybernetics & Holistic Accounting.
https://youtu.be/I4_8_lDfwEw?si=J-kdRzjIehZqPgs0
Kula, W. (2016). Measures and Men. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691639079/measures-and-men
Echterhölter, A. M. (2019). Quantification as Conflict. Witold Kula’s Political Metrology and Its Reception in the West . Historyka : studia metodologiczne, 49, 117-141 . Article 9.
https://journals.pan.pl/Content/114031/PDF/7%20ECHTERH%C3%96LTER.pdf
on Max Weber:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
on Double-entry bookkeeping:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping
on “proletarian science”:
Moore, J.W. (2025). Nature and other dangerous words: Marx, method and the proletarian standpoint in the web of life. Dialectical Anthropology. 49, 149–167.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-025-09775-x
on Ecosystem services:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_service
on the “Ecological footprint” concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint
on Thomas Müntzer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M%C3%BCntzer
on the Royal Botanic Gardens/Kew Gardens:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens_(Kew)
on the Stakhanovite movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement
on Cybernetics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
on Earth systems science:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_system_science
Selcer, P. (2018). The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment. How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth. Columbia University Press.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-postwar-origins-of-the-global-environment/9780231166485/
Medina, E. (2014). Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. MIT Press.
https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Eden_Medina_Cybernetic_Revolutionaries.pdf
on Cybernetics in the Soviet Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics_in_the_Soviet_Union
on the Transitional demand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_demand
see also:
Trotsky’s The Transitional Program:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/
on the Green New Deal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal
on the European Green Deal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Green_Deal
on Geoengineering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering
on Johan Rockström:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Rockstr%C3%B6m
on Planetary boundaries:
https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html
Klein, N. (2015). This Changes Everything. Capitalism vs. the Climate. Penguin.
https://thischangeseverything.org/book/
Kushi, S., & Toft, M. D. (2022). Introducing the Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 67(4), 752-779.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220027221117546
on Allen Dulles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles
on Reinhard Gehlen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Gehlen
Talbot, D. (2016). The Devil’s Chessboard. Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. Harper Collins.
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-devils-chessboard-david-talbot?variant=32207669559330
on the concept of the Deep State:
Scott, P. D. (1996). Deep Politics and the Death of JFK. University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/deep-politics-and-the-death-of-jfk/paper
Scott, P. D. (2017). The American Deep State. Big Money, Big Oil, and the Struggle for U.S. Democracy. Rowman & Littlefield.
https://archive.org/details/americandeepstat0000scot/page/n5/mode/2up
Good, A. (2022). American Exception. Empire and the Deep State. Skyhorse Publishing.
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510769144/american-exception/
on the origin of the concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_Turkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susurluk_car_crash
recently released files relating to the assassination of JFK on the website of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA):
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025
on the current state of knowledge on the Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-is-known-about-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-explosions-2025-08-21/
on the Nord Stream Pipeline Explosion releasing massive Amounts of Methane:
https://youtu.be/7KBsf7bX9Nc?si=tDIxlFFF2ThO6Aeb
on Systems Dynamics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics
the ‘Limits to Growth’ Report, commissioned by the Club of Rome:
https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/
the Club of Rome:
https://www.clubofrome.org/
on Jay Wright Forrester:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester
on the concept of the Anthropocene:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene
on James C. Scott:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott
Mies, M. & Bennholdt-Thomsen, V. (1999). The Subsistence Perspective. Beyond the Globalised Economy. Zed Books.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/subsistence-perspective-9781856497763/
on the New Economic Policy (NEP):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
on the Belt and Road Initiative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
Nachmani, A. (1990). Civil War and Foreign Intervention in Greece: 1946-49. Journal of Contemporary History, 25(4), 489–522.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/260759
on the “Soft Coup against the Wils
Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
2025/08/02
Anna Kornbluh on the prevalence of aesthetic immediacy and why we need climate counteraesthetics.
Events (from the introduction):
at the Zollo Collective:
https://www.instagram.com/zollo.hamburg/?hl=enat La Band Varga:
https://labandavaga.org/?page_id=102
Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:
https://resuso.ch/
Shownotes
Anna Kornbluh’s personal website (including all her publications):
http://www.annakornbluh.com/
Anna at the University of Illinois Chicago:
https://engl.uic.edu/profiles/kornbluh-anna/
Kornbluh, A. (2024). Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3031-immediacy-or-the-style-of-too-late-capitalism
Kornbluh, A. (2023). We Didn’t Start The Fire. Death Drive and Ecocide. Parapraxis Magazine Issue 3.
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/we-didnt-start-the-fire
Kornbluh, A. (2020). Climate Realism, Capitalist and Otherwise. Mediations. Journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Vol. 33. No. 1-2. P. 99-118.
https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/climate-realism
Kornbluh, A. (2019). The Order of Forms. Realism, Formalism, and Social Space. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo44521006.html
Groos, J., Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
on Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Pauline_Gumbs
https://www.alexispauline.com/
her essay on the Maui wildfires:
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a44819303/climate-crisis-maui/
on climate fiction (cli-fi):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_fiction
Rebecca Saltzman:
https://rebeccasaltzman.net/
Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble
Tsing, A. L. (2021). The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691220550/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world
on the genre of the Heist film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heist_film
on “Logan Lucky”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Lucky
Strange, S. (2015). Casino Capitalism. Manchester University Press.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784991340/
Edward Morgan Forster on Narrative:
https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/04/e-m-forster-the-difference-between-story-and-plot/
on climate/eco-anxiety:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-anxiety
Spufford, F. (2012). Red Plenty. Graywolf Press.
https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/red-plenty
explanation “hypersititon”:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperstition
on Kim Stanley Robinson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson
Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit.
https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-future
Robinson, K. S. (2017). New York 2140. Orbit.
https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/new-york-2140
on the Inflation Reduction Act:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
on the Green New Deal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal
website of Daniel Aldana Cohen (including all his publications):
https://aldanacohen.com/
Climate & Community Institute:
https://climateandcommunity.org/
“A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez” video from 2019:
https://youtu.be/d9uTH0iprVQ?si=8O-M_fS2iO_AQhiL
Aronoff, K., Battistoni, A., Cohen, D. A., & Riofrancos, T. (2019). A Planet to Win. Why We Need a Green New Deal. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2546-a-planet-to-win
Klein, N., Taylor, A. (2025). The Rise of End Times Fascism. The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk
on the Zohran Mamdani campaign:
https://www.zohranfornyc.com/
on Social Realism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realism
on Brandon Taylor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Taylor_(writer)
his website:
https://brandonlgtaylor.com/
on Colson Whitehead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead
his website:
https://www.colsonwhitehead.com/
on “Succession”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_(TV_series)
on “Somebody Somewhere”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Somewhere_(TV_series)
on public luxury:
https://communia.de/en/project/public-luxury/
https://autonomy.work/portfolio/public-luxury-in-practice/
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s website:
http://www.olufemiotaiwo.com/
Táíwò, O. (2020). Who gets to feel secure? On Liberty, Security, and Our System of Racial Capitalism. Aeon.
https://aeon.co/essays/on-liberty-security-and-our-system-of-racial-capitalism
Boston Review issue on “What is the State for?”:
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/from-the-editors-what-is-the-state-for/
on Freud’s concept of the Death drive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e02-george-monbiot-on-public-luxury/
S02E27 | Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/
S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e18-drew-pendergrass-and-troy-vettese-on-half-earth-socialism/
S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Jan Overwijk on Cybernetic Capitalism and Critical Systems Theory
2025/06/08
Jan Overwijk discusses critical systems theory, sociologies of closure and openness, and cybernetic capitalism.
Shownotes
Jan Overwijk at the Frankfurt University Institute for Social Research:
https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/personendetails/jan-overwijk.html
Jan at the University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht:
https://www.uvh.nl/university-of-humanistic-studies/contact/search-employees?person=jimxneoBsHowOfbPivN
Overwijk, J. (2025). Cybernetic Capitalism. A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable. Fordham University Press.
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531508937/cybernetic-capitalism/
on the website of the distributor outside of North America you can order the book with a 30% discount with the code “FFF24”:
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781531508937/cybernetic-capitalism/
on Niklas Luhmann:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann
Baraldi, C., Corsi, G., & Esposito, E. (2021). Unlocking Luhmann. A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory. transcript.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5674-9/unlocking-luhmann/
Fischer-Lescano, A. (2011). Critical Systems Theory. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 38(1), 3–23.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0191453711421600
Möller, K., & Siri, J. (2023). Niklas Luhmann and Critical Systems Theory. In: R. Rogowski (Ed.), The Anthem Companion to Niklas Luhmann (pp. 141–154).
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/anthem-companion-to-niklas-luhmann/niklas-luhmann-and-critical-systems-theory/982BC5427E171D2BA0D14364377A40F5
on Critical Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
on Cybernetics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
Future Histories explanation video on cybernetics (in German):
https://youtu.be/QBKC9mM8-so?si=64v0OgBKV3xjXvLl
on Humberto Matuarana:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Maturana
on Francisco Varela:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Varela
Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (1992). Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Shambhala.
https://uranos.ch/research/references/Maturana1988/maturana-h-1987-tree-of-knowledge-bkmrk.pdf
on Ferdinand de Saussure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure
on Post-Structuralism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism
on the differentiation of society into subsystems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation_(sociology)
on Jaques Derrida:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
Bob Jessop on Luhmann and the concept of “ecological dominance”:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318543419_The_relevance_of_Luhmann%27s_systems_theory_and_of_Laclau_and_Mouffe%27s_discourse_analysis_to_the_elaboration_of_Marx%27s_state_theory
Jessop, B. (2010). From Hegemony to Crisis? The Continuing Ecological Dominance of Neoliberalism. In: K. Birch & V. Mykhnenko (Eds.). Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? (pp. 171–187). Zed Books.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318524063_The_continuing_ecological_dominance_of_neoliberalism_in_the_crisis
on Surplus Value in Marx and Marxism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value
on Louis Althusser:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Althusser
Althusser, L. (2014). On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. Verso.
https://legalform.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/althusser-on-the-reproduction-of-capitalism.pdf
on Stuart Hall:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hall_(cultural_theorist)
on Capital Strikes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_strike
on the concept of “rationalization” in sociology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(sociology)
on Max Weber:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
Weber, M. (2005). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Routledge.
https://gpde.direito.ufmg.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/MAX-WEBER.pdf
Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Profile Books.
https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/
on Surveillance Capitalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
on Herbert Marcuse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
Marcuse, H. (2002). One-Dimensional Man. Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Routledge.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Marcuse,%20H%20-%20One-Dimensional%20Man,%202nd%20edn.%20(Routledge,%202002).pdf
on Jürgen Habermas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas
on Jean-François Lyotard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lyotard
Lyotard, J.-F. (1988). The Differend. Phrases in Dispute. University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816616114/differend/
on Thermodynamics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics
on the Technocracy Movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
Bauman, Z. (2000). Liquid Modernity. Polity.
https://giuseppecapograssi.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/bauman-liquid-modernity.pdf
on New Materialism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_materialism
on Gilles Deleuze:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
on Bruno Latour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour
on Donna Haraway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
for criticisms of new materialism and associated tendencies and authors:
Malm, A. (2018). The Progress of this Storm. Nature and Society in a Warming World. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/574-the-progress-of-this-storm
Brown, W. (2019). In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West. Columbia University Press.
https://www.social-ecology.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-Wellek-Library-Lectures-Wendy-Brown-In-the-Ruins-of-Neoliberalism_-The-Rise-of-Antidemocratic-Politics-in-the-West-Columbia-University-Press-2019.pdf
Hendrikse, R. (2018). Neo-illiberalism. Geoforum, 95, 169–172.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718518302057
on N. Katherine Hayles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Katherine_Hayles
Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on the Societies of Control. October. Vol. 59. (Winter 1992), 3-7.
https://cidadeinseguranca.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf
Brenner, R., Glick, M. (1991). The Regulation Approach. Theory and History. New Left Review. 1/188.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/i188/articles/robert-brenner-mark-glick-the-regulation-approach-theory-and-history.pdf
on the “Regulation School”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_school
Chiapello, E., & Boltanski, L. (2018). The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/1980-the-new-spirit-of-capitalism
Hardt, M., & Negri, A. (2000). Empire. Harvard University Press.
https://monoskop.org/images/9/95/Hardt_Michael_Negri_Antonio_Empire.pdf
on the Tierra Artificial Life Program:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_(computer_simulation)
on Gilbert Simondon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Simondon
on Karen Barad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Barad
on Post-Fordism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Fordism
on Taylorism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management
Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform Capitalism. Polity.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=platform-capitalism--9781509504862
Hayek, F. A. (2014). The Constitution of Liberty. Routledge.
https://ia600805.us.archive.org/35/items/TheConstitutionOfLiberty/The%20Constitution%20of%20Liberty.pdf
van Dyk, S. (2018). Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism. Work, Employment and Society, 32(3), 528–545.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0950017018755663
on Rosa Luxemburg:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg
on Luxemburg’s thought on imperialism:
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/44096/rosa-luxemburgs-heterodox-view-of-the-global-south
Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism. How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism
on Mariarosa Dalla Costa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariarosa_Dalla_Costa
on the “Wages for Housework” Campaign:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages_for_Housework
Moore, J. W. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
on Stafford Beer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer
Pickering, A. (2010). The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo8169881.html
Foucualt’s quote on socialist governmentality is from this book:
Foucault, M. (2008). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://1000littlehammers.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/birth_of_biopolitics.pdf
Groos, J. (2025). Planning as an Art of Government. In: J. Groos & C. Sorg (Eds.). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond (pp. 115-132). Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
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S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/
S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
S03E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e04-tim-platenkamp-on-republican-socialism-general-planning-and-parametric-control/
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
https://futurehistories-international.com/episo
Jasper Bernes on Workers' Councils, Labor Time Calculation and the Future of Revolution
2025/05/25
Jasper Bernes discusses worker self-organization, labor time accounting and the revolutionary potential of workers' councils.
Shownotes
Jasper’s personal website:
https://jasperbernes.net/
Jasper at UC Berkeley:
https://english.berkeley.edu/people/jasper-bernes
Commune Magazine:
https://communemag.com/
Bernes, J. (2025). The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revolution
Bernes, J. (2020). Planning and Anarchy. South Atlantic Quarterly, 119(1), 53–73.
https://jasperbernes.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1190053.pdf
on Worker’s councils:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_council
on Council communism:
https://libcom.org/article/council-communism-introduction
on the Paris Commune:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune
on Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike:
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/43964/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-political-mass-strike
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
Find the quote “the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all” at the end of Chapter 2 of the Communist Manifesto:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm
Group of International Communists (1990) [German original 1930] Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.htm
second, revised edition from 1935, published in English in 2020:
https://arbeitszeit.noblogs.org/files/2023/04/GIC-Fundamental-Principles-2.-Ed.1935-1.pdf
on Jan Appel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Appel
on Labor Time Calculation/Accounting:
https://arbeitszeit.noblogs.org/en-GB/basics/
Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
on Communization:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communization
Noys, B. (Ed.). (2012). Communization and its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles. Minor Compositions.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Communization-and-its-Discontents-Contestation-Critique-and-Contemporary-Struggles.pdf
on Gilles Dauvé:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Dauv%C3%A9
on the law of Value in Marx:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_value
on Paul Mattick:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mattick
Roth, G. (2014). Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick. BRILL.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Gary%20Roth%20-%20Marxism%20in%20a%20Lost%20Century%20-%20A%20Biography%20of%20Paul%20Mattick.pdf
Mattick’s introduction to the 1970 reprint of the German first edition of “Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution”:
https://www.leftcommunism.org/spip.php?article359
on the Communist Party of Germany, founded in 1919:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany
on Amadeo Bordiga:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_Bordiga
Bordiga on the distinction between the city and the countryside:
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/bordiga-humansearth.pdf
Raekstad, P. R., & Gradin, S. S. (2019). Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today. Polity.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=prefigurative-politics-building-tomorrow-today--9781509535903
the Endnotes Journal:
https://endnotes.org.uk/
on the German strand of the “Commons” debate and movement:
https://commons-institut.org/theorie/was-sind-commons/
https://keimform.de/
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (1993). Waiting for the Revolution, or How to Smash Capitalism while Working at Home in Your Spare Time. Rethinking Marxism, 6(2), 10–24.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08935699308658052
Purnell, D. (2021). Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protest, and the Pursuit of Freedom. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2894-becoming-abolitionists
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E04 | Tim Platenkamp on Republican Socialism, General Planning and Parametric Control
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e04-tim-platenkamp-on-republican-socialism-general-planning-and-parametric-control/
S02E58 | Søren Mau on Planning and Freedom
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e58-soren-mau-on-planning-and-freedom/
S02E19 | David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e19-david-laibman-on-multilevel-democratic-iterative-coordination/
S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/
S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy
https://futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Clara E. Mattei on Austerity, Fascism and Authoritarian Liberalism
2025/04/12
Clara E. Mattei on the relation between austerity, fascism and authoritarian liberalism.Clara's book is out in German! Find it here:
Die Ordnung des Kapitals: Wie Ökonomen die Austerität erfanden und dem Faschismus den Weg bereiteten. Brumaire Verlag.
https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/clara-mattei-die-ordnung-des-kapitals
Shownotes
Clara E. Mattei’s website:
https://www.claramattei.com/
Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma:
https://sites.utulsa.edu/chetu/
CHE’s YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@CHE-tulsa
Mattei, C. E. (2022). The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. University of Chicago Press.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo181707138.html
the german translation:
Mattei, C. E. (2025). Die Ordnung des Kapitals: Wie Ökonomen die Austerität erfanden und dem Faschismus den Weg bereiteten. Brumaire Verlag.
https://shop.jacobin.de/bestellen/clara-mattei-die-ordnung-des-kapitals
on „Derisking“:
Amarnath, S., Brusseler, M., Gabor, D., Lala, C., Mason, JW (2023). Varieties of Derisking. Phenomenal World.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/derisking/
on “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency
on the new german “Sondervermögen” to invest in rearmament and infrastructure:
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-set-to-spend-big-on-army-and-infrastructure/a-71834527
on the 1920 International Financial Conference in Brussels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_International_Financial_Conference_(1920)
on the 1922 Economic and Financial Conference in Genoa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa_Economic_and_Financial_Conference_(1922)
on Google’s contract with the IDF:
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24349582/google-israel-defense-forces-idf-contract-gaza
Benanav, A. (2022). Socialist Investment, Dynamic Planning, and the Politics of Human Need. Rethinking Marxism, 34(2), 193–204.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2022.2051375
Sirianni, C. J. (1980). Workers’ Control in the Era of World War I: A Comparative Analysis of the European Experience. Theory and Society, 9(1), 29–88.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/656823
on the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landless_Workers%27_Movement
Braun, B. (2021) Central Bank Planning for Public Purpose. In: Fassin, D. and Fourcade, M. (eds.) Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus. HAU Books, pp. 105–121.
https://benjaminbraun.org/assets/pubs/braun_central-bank-planning-public-purpose.pdf
on the “Phillips Curve”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve
Arun K. Patnaik. (1988). Gramsci’s Concept of Common Sense: Towards a Theory of Subaltern Consciousness in Hegemony Processes. Economic and Political Weekly, 23(5).
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4378042
Thomas, P.D. (2015). Gramsci’s Marxism: The ‘Philosophy of Praxis’. In: McNally, M. (eds.) Antonio Gramsci. Critical Explorations in Contemporary Political Thought. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137334183_6
on the US Solidarity Economy:
https://neweconomy.net/solidarity-economy/
the US Solidarity Economy Network:
https://ussen.org/
the US Solidarity Economy Map and Directory:
https://solidarityeconomy.us/
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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S03E24 | Grace Blakeley on Capitalist Planning and its Alternatives
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e24-grace-blakeley-on-capitalist-planning-and-its-alternatives/
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Cecilia Rikap on Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism and Corporate Power in the Age of AI
2025/03/16
Cecilia Rikap explains how today’s big tech hegemons build intellectual monopolies and use their power for corporate planning beyond ownership.
This episode was recorded during a live event with Cecilia Rikap, hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation Berlin. Many thanks to everybody involved!
For information on the event, see: https://www.rosalux.de/en/event/es_detail/2MGCX
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Shownotes
Cecilia Rikap at University College London (UCL):
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/94616-cecilia-rikap
Cecilias upcoming book:
Rikap, C. (2025). The Rulers. Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud. Verso Books.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790833/the-rulers-by-cecilia-rikap/
Rikap, C., & Lundvall, B.-Å. (2021). The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order. Springer Nature.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89443-6#overview
Rikap, C. (2021). Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/Capitalism-Power-and-Innovation-Intellectual-Monopoly-Capitalism-Uncovered/Rikap/p/book/9780367750299?srsltid=AfmBOoohn2o3_THE5S57rt4kTs62Fp3kv5AUNj8rUTdn7ywK9LFhfEro
Rikap C., Durand, C., Paraná, E., Gerbaudo, P. and Marx P. (2024). Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty: A Roadmap to build a Digital Stack for People and the Planet.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2024/dec/reclaiming-digital-sovereignty
Bensussan, H., Durand, C., Rikap, C. (2023) 100 years of Corporate Planning. From Industrial Capitalism to Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism through the lenses of the Harvard Business Review (1922-2021).
https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:171107
Rikap, C. (2023) Mapping the Cloud. Big Tech taking the Sky by Storm. CITYPERC Working Paper, No. 2023-05.
https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/280831
Rikap, C. (2024) From Planning AI to Planning the Green Transition. Intellectual Monopolization amid the ecological breakdown.
https://youtu.be/cckqeiwXuHA?si=N3lRKBiN-KVQaXyA
Rikap, C. (2022) Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism. Knowledge Predation and Corporate Planning in the 21st Century.
https://www.youtube.com/live/VMU1IHm8838?si=jiOLSryWIyM9NvYL
Rikap, C. (2022) Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism. How Big Tech Companies became the World’s largest Planners.
https://youtu.be/4va-JedZGQA?si=0p_Lm-CJ-mbK6GoN
on the concept of Value Chains:
https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/education/graduate-study/pgcerts/value-chain-defs
on “demand sensing”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_sensing
on the concept of „the stack” and its relation to states:
Bratton, B. H. (2016). The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty. MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262029575/the-stack/
on Doge and its cutting of jobs at US government agencies:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23vkd57471o
on Lina Kahn, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) under Biden and her policy efforts (including antitrust laws against Big Tech):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Khan
on the different political strands coming together in the current Trump Administration, including the influence of Curtis Yarvin:
https://youtu.be/YIPWekMahXc?si=mcY_ntC1-etzulF5
on Yann leCun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun
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#CeciliaRikap, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #futurehistoriesinternational, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #BigTech, #CapitalistPlanning, #Monopolies, #PlatformCapitalism, #ProgressivePolitics, #EconomicPlanning, #TechnoPolitics, #Capitalism, #BigData, #TheStack, #Platform, #DataPolitics, #TechNationalism, #Techno-Nationalism, #PeterThiel, #SiliconValley, #Palantir, #CurtisYarvin, #IntellectualMonopolies, #KnowledgeCapitalism, #TechSovereignty, #DataColonialism, #AiAndCapitalism, #TechnoFeudalism, #IntellectualPropertyRegimes
Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
2025/02/16
Jacob Blumenfeld discusses the concept of “managing decline”, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it.
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Info on Creative Construction Book Launch:
Date: March 4th, 19hLocation: aquarium am SüdblockSkalitzer Str. 610999 BerlinDeutschland
About the book:
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Shownotes
The Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin:
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/
Blumenfeld, J. (2022). Climate barbarism: Adapting to a wrong world. Constellations, 30(2), 162–178.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12596
Blumenfeld, J. (2023) What was socialization. A look back.
https://sfb294-eigentum.de/en/blog/what-was-socialization-a-look-back/
Blumenfeld, J. (2024a). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3.
https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline
Blumenfeld, J. (2024b). The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. Freedom, Right, and Recognition. Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Concept-of-Property-in-Kant-Fichte-and-Hegel-Freedom-Right-and-Recognition/Blumenfeld/p/book/9781032575186
Blumenfeld, J. (2024c). Socialising Nature.
https://www.break-down.org/post/socialising-nature
Blumenfeld, J. (2024d). Welcome to the Anderscene. Brooklyn Rail.
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/Welcome-to-the-Anderscene/
Angebauer, N., Blumenfeld, J., & Wesche, T. (2025). Umkämpftes Eigentum: Eine gesellschaftstheoretische Debatte. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/umkaempftes-eigentum-t-9783518300503
Jacob contributed to this soon to be published book:Forstenhäusler, Robin, et al. (Eds.). (2025). Klima und Gesellschaftskritik. Verbrecher Verlag.
https://www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/klimawandel-und-gesellschaftskritik/
Buck, H. J. (2021). Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2735-ending-fossil-fuels
on the productive forces turning into destructive forces see:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01d.htm
Staab, P. (2022). Anpassung. Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-anpassung-t-9783518127797
Felli, R. (2021). The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/841-the-great-adaptation
Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2024). Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3131-overshoot
on the „Promethean Gap“:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promethean_gap
on Otto Neurath:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath
on Freud’s concept of the “Reality Principle”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_principle
Marcuse, H. (1955) Eros and Civilization. A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Beacon Press.
https://archive.org/details/HerbertMarcuseErosandCivilization
on Vaclav Smil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil
on the Yellow Wests Protests (also “Gilets Jaunes”):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests
Mann, G., & Wainwright, J. (2018). Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/520-climate-leviathan
Moore, S., & Roberts, A. (2022). The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right. Polity Books.
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-rise-of-ecofascism-climate-change-and-the-far-right--9781509545377
on Marxist crisis theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_theory
Markley, S. (2023) The Deluge. Simon & Schuster.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Deluge/Stephen-Markley/9781982123109
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Episode Keywords
#JacobBlumenfeld, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #futurehistoriesinternational, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Degrowth, #Socialism, #Capitalism, #GreenNewDeal, #ClimateJustice, #PoliticalEconomy, #ClimateCrisis, #FossilCapitalism, #EcoSocialism, #Marx, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Market, #Adaption, #Mitigation, #AndreasMalm, #Marcuse, #Freud, #DemocraticPlanning, #PostCapitalism, #ClimatePolitics, #RadicalEcology, #JustTransition, #Prometheanism
Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
2025/01/19
Kohei Saito and Matt Huber discuss degrowth communism, socialist ecomodernism and their respective views on growth, natural limits, technology and progress.
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Shownotes
Kohei Saito at University of Tokyo:
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/k0001_04217.html
Saito is chair of the “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning” Program at The New Institute:
https://thenew.institute/en/programs/beyond-capitalism-war-economy-and-democratic-planning
Matt Huber at Syracuse University:
https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/matthew-t-huber
Saito, K. (2024). Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism can save the Earth. W&N.
https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kohei-saito/slow-down/9781399612999/
Saito, K. (2023). Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/marx-in-the-anthropocene/D58765916F0CB624FCCBB61F50879376
Saito, K. (2017). Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy. Monthly Review Press.
https://monthlyreview.org/product/karl_marxs_ecosocialism/
Huber, M. T. (2022). Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/775-climate-change-as-class-war?srsltid=AfmBOop0wE8Ljdd-lZjDF-9-RZ_QvjRz2f3EobOv3AYEVpcqMDssRUd9
Huber, M. T. (2013). Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital. University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816677856/lifeblood/
Matt Huber’s and Leigh Philipps’s review of Saito’s recent work:
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/kohei-saito-degrowth-communism-environment-marxism
on Huber’s critique of degrowth:
https://jacobin.com/2023/07/degrowth-climate-change-economic-planning-production-austerity
more articles on Jacobin by Huber:
https://jacobin.com/author/matt-huber
Matt Huber’s medium blog:
https://medium.com/@Matthuber78
On Ecomodernism:
https://thebreakthrough.org/ecomodernism
Matt Huber’s stance on the term “Ecomodernism”:
https://medium.com/@Matthuber78/clarifications-on-ecomodernism-3b159cafb836
on Vaclav Smil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil
chapter on machinery and modern industry in Marx’s Capital Vol.1:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm
on Eco-Marxism/Ecosocialism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-socialism
Reading guide on Ecology & Marxism by Andreas Malm:
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andreas-malm/
on GDP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
Schmelzer, M. (2016). The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hegemony-of-growth/A80C4DF19D804C723D55A5EFE7A447FD
on the „Green New Deal”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal
Pollin, R. (2018) De-Growth vs. a Green New Deal. New Left Review Issue 112.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii112/articles/robert-pollin-de-growth-vs-a-green-new-deal
Hickel, J. (2020). What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification. Globalizations, 18(7), 1105–1111.
https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/files/2022/11/What-does-degrowth-mean-A-few-points-of-clarification.pdf
on Malthusianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism
Harvey, D. (1974). Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science. Economic Geography, 50(3), 256–277.
https://www.uky.edu/~tmute2/GEI-Web/password-protect/GEI-readings/harvey%20population.pdf
the „Limits to Growth” report from 1972:
https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/
Hickel, J. (2019) Degrowth: A Theory of Radical Abundance. Real-World Economics Review Issue 87.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc0e610abd04bd1e067ccc/t/5cb6db356e9a7f14e5322a62/1555487546989/Hickel+-+Degrowth%2C+A+Theory+of+Radical+Abundance.pdf
on Planetary Boundaries:
https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html
Earl C. Ellies:
https://ges.umbc.edu/ellis/
on “Decoupling”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-economic_decoupling
Christophers, B. (2024). The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3069-the-price-is-wrong?srsltid=AfmBOorFVDdqKegvmh1GA8ku3xla4rBjygkm0iwPL5VXF-BH-O1WOkMo
on the Haber-Bosch Process:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
Smil, V. (2004). Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production. MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262693134/enriching-the-earth/
Smil, V. (2016). Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses. MIT Press.
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/4023/Power-DensityA-Key-to-Understanding-Energy-Sources
on Mining and the Green Energy Transition:
https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/novara-fm-clean-energy-is-already-terraforming-the-earth-w-thea-riofrancos
Marx’s letter to Vera Zasulich:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/index.htm
Marx’s “Preface” to “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy”:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm
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https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e18-drew-pendergrass-and-troy-vettese-on-half-earth-socialism/
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Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
2025/01/05
Nancy Fraser discusses her understanding of capitalism as an integrated social order and explores its implications for envisioning a desirable postcapitalism.
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
https://www.indep.network/
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
Democratic Planning Forum:
https://forum.democratic-planning.com/
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Remarque Institute
https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/remarque.html
Nancy Fraser at The New School for Social Research:
https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/nancy-fraser/
Fraser, N. (2023). Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism?srsltid=AfmBOopHZ8reXaCDUToeZsbdoTqnXb-wbejQdYin2J_bsa9tAu36oQCQ
Ivkovic, M., & Zaric, Z. (2024). Nancy Fraser and Politics. Edinburgh University Press.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nancy-fraser-and-politics.html
Fraser, N., & Jaeggi, R. (2023). Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2867-capitalism
Fraser, N. (2022) Benjamin Lecture 3 – Class beyond Class (Video)
https://youtu.be/jf6laSf6Eko?si=iWL-Za4pPPwF0xvb
on social differentiation as discussed in sociology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation_(sociology)
Rodney, W. (2018). How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/788-how-europe-underdeveloped-africa?srsltid=AfmBOoqKZ6g4j8UpPJD6qC5yEmKuP0h6sFTvcEX5qjBF7CtPSzedUtcP
on Marx’s account of surplus value:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value
Robaszkiewicz, M. & Weinman, M. (2023) Hannah Arendt and Politics. Edinburgh University Press.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hannah-arendt-and-politics.html
Vančura, M. (2011) Polanyi’s Great Transformation and the concept of the embedded economoy. IES Occasional Paper No. 2/2011
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/83289/1/668400315.pdf
Elson, D. (2015). Value: The Representation of Labour in Capitalism. Verso Books.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/159-value?srsltid=AfmBOooSko5DiXwMNN2NjSay4BP4n9cM-4y53r7G90VPbvE6itl5rxKT
Robertson, J. (2017) The Life and Death of Yugoslav Socialism. Jacobin.
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