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Sunday Jan 04, 2026
Sunday Jan 04, 2026
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:
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:
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:
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:
the Network for Greening the Financial System:
on COP30 in Belém:
Solnit, R. (2022). Orwell’s Roses. Penguin.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607057/orwells-roses-by-rebecca-solnit/
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E47 | Jason W. Moore on Socialism in the Web of Life
S03E44 | Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e44-anna-kornbluh-on-climate-counteraesthetics/
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism
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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
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Episode Keywords
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Sunday Dec 21, 2025
Sunday Dec 21, 2025
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”.
Please support the Institute for Transformation and Economy Studies in making the Rethinking Economics Summer School happen, by donating here:
https://donate.raisenow.io/ypbcw?lng=en
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:
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.
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.
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):
Hoffrogge, R. (2024). Commons and Constitution: historical and legal roots of the German socialization movement:
for projects on socialization in different sectors see also:
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:
RWE & Co Enteignen:
Hamburg Enteignet:
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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S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
S03E10 | Katharina Keil zu Vergesellschaftung und Transformation
S02E57 | Jenny Stupka zum Kampf um Vergesellschaftung
S02E57 | Jenny Stupka zum Kampf um Vergesellschaftung
S02E48 | Heide Lutosch, Christoph Sorg und Stefan Meretz zu Vergesellschaftung und demokratischer Planung
S02E29 | Max und Lemon von communia zu Vergesellschaftung und demokratischer Wirtschaft
S02E23 | Nina Scholz zu den wunden Punkten von Google, Amazon, Deutsche Wohnen & Co.
S03E32 | 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
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Episode Keywords
#RabeaBerfelde, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #FutureHistoriesLive #DemocraticPlanning, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Capitalism #BerlinHousingCampaign, #DWE, #Economics, #Socialism, #Socialisation, #OttoNeurath, #AaronBenanav, #Transition
Sunday Dec 07, 2025
Sunday Dec 07, 2025
Philipp Staab zur Systemkrise und den Legitimitätsproblemen im grünen Kapitalismus.
Shownotes
Philipp an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/zukunftarbeit/mitarbeiter_innen/pstaab
Philipp am Einstein Center Digital Future:
https://www.digital-future.berlin/ueber-uns/professorinnen/prof-dr-philipp-staab/
Philipps persönliche Website:
Staab, P. (2025). Systemkrise. Legitimationsprobleme im grünen Kapitalismus. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-systemkrise-t-9783518128237
Staab, P. (2022). Anpassung. Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-anpassung-t-9783518127797
Staab, P. (2019). Digitaler Kapitalismus. Markt und Herrschaft in der Ökonomie der Unknappheit. Suhrkamp
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-digitaler-kapitalismus-t-9783518075159
zur Kritischen Theorie:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kritische_Theorie
Hawel, M., & Blanke, M. (Hrsg.). (2012). Kritische Theorie der Krise. Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin.
https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Publ-Texte/Texte_72.pdf
zu Claus Offe:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Offe
Offe, C. (2006). Strukturprobleme des kapitalistischen Staates. Aufsätze zur Politischen Soziologie. Campus Verlag.
zu Jürgen Habermas:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas
Habermas, J. (1973). Legitimationsprobleme im Spätkapitalismus. Suhrkamp.
Hoffman, O. (2025). Polykrise. Anatomie eines globalen Zusammenbruchs. Warum alle Krisen zusammenhängen - und was das für unsere Zukunft bedeutet. Königshausen & Neumann.
https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826093883-polykrise/
zur Great Depression:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
zur Westdeutschen Studentenbewegung der 1960er Jahre:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westdeutsche_Studentenbewegung_der_1960er_Jahre
zu den K-Gruppen:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Gruppe
zu den Bauernprotesten am Brandenburger Tor:
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tausende-landwirte-demonstrieren-vor-dem-brandenburger-tor-100.html
zu den Protesten gegen das Heizungsgesetz:
zum Inflation Reduction Act (IRA):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
zu Ulrich Beck:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Beck
Beck, U. (1986). Risikogesellschaft. Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/ulrich-beck-risikogesellschaft-t-9783518113653
Huber, M. T. (2022). Climate Change as Class War. Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/775-climate-change-as-class-war
Thompson, E. P. (1987). Die Entstehung der englischen Arbeiterklasse. Suhrkamp.
zur Flut im Ahrtal 2021 und den politischen Reaktionen darauf:
https://www.bpb.de/kurz-knapp/hintergrund-aktuell/522893/nach-der-flut-an-der-ahr-2021/
zu Ingolfur Blühdorn:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingolfur_Bl%C3%BChdorn
Blühdorn, I. et al. (2019). Nachhaltige Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit. Warum die ökologische Transformation der Gesellschaft nicht stattfindet. transcript.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4516-3/nachhaltige-nicht-nachhaltigkeit/
zum Pariser Klimaabkommen von 2015:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbereinkommen_von_Paris
Boltanski, L. & Chiapello, È. (2006). Der neue Geist des Kapitalismus. Herbert von Halem Verlag.
https://www.halem-verlag.de/produkt/der-neue-geist-des-kapitalismus/
Lazzarato, M. (2007). Die Missgeschicke der „Künstlerkritik“ und der kulturellen Beschäftigung. transversal texts.
https://transversal.at/transversal/0207/lazzarato/de
Jaeggi, R. (2023). Fortschritt und Regression. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/rahel-jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression-t-9783518587140
Brand, U. & Wissen, M. (2024). Kapitalismus am Limit. Öko-imperiale Spannungen, umkämpfte Krisenpolitik und solidarische Perspektiven. oekom Verlag.
https://www.oekom.de/buch/kapitalismus-am-limit-9783987260650
Schaupp, S. (2024). Stoffwechselpolitik. Arbeit, Natur und die Zukunft des Planeten. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/simon-schaupp-stoffwechselpolitik-t-9783518029862
zum Leninismus:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninismus
Neupert-Doppler, A. (2019). Die Gelegenheit ergreifen. Eine politische Philosophie des Kairos. mandelbaum.
https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/alexander-neupert-doppler/die-gelegenheit-ergreifen/
zu Robert Mugabe:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe
zu den Sandanisten:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frente_Sandinista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional
zu den Zapatistas:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional
zum Kollapscamp 2025:
Baumann, Z. (2017). Retropia. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/zygmunt-bauman-retrotopia-t-9783518073315
zu Max Weber:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber
Weber, M. (2019). Typen der Herrschaft. Reclam.
https://www.reclam.de/produktdetail/typen-der-herrschaft-9783150195383
zu Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen:
zur Behauptung, dass haitianische Immigrant*innen in Springfield Haustiere essen würden:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_pet-eating_hoax
zu Habermas‘ Theorie der Kolonialisierung der Lebenswelt:
https://philosophischeberatung.berlin/die-verwaltung-des-wohls-ein-widerspruch-in-sich/
zu Karl Polanyi:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Polanyi
Polanyi, K. (1973). The Great Transformation. Politische und ökonomische Ursprünge von Gesellschaften und Wirtschaftssystemen. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/karl-polanyi-the-great-transformation-t-9783518278604
Amlinger, C. & Nachtwey, O. (2025). Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/zerstoerungslust-t-9783518432662
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S3E52 | Alexander Neupert-Doppler zu Kairos und verbindender Organisation
S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren
S03E43 | Steen Thorsson zu Psychoanalyse, Klimakrise und Kapitalismus
S03E33 | Tadzio Müller zu solidarischem Preppen im Kollaps
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E17 | Klaus Dörre zu Utopie, Nachhaltigkeit und einer Linken für das 21. Jh.
S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/
S02E30 | Philipp Staab zu Anpassung
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e30-philipp-staab-zu-anpassung/
S01E26 | Philipp Staab zu digitalem Kapitalismus
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e26-philipp-staab-zu-digitalem-kapitalismus/
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Bei weiterem Interesse am Thema demokratische Wirtschaftsplanung können diese Ressourcen hilfreich sein:
Demokratische Planung – eine Infoseite
https://www.demokratische-planung.de/
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
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Sunday Nov 23, 2025
Sunday Nov 23, 2025
Alexander Neupert-Doppler zu Kairos und verbindender Organisation.
Shownotes
Alexander Neupert-Dopplers Website (inkl. thematisch geordneter Publikationsliste):
Website des Forschungsprojekts „Dialektik der Pandemie: Zwischen Autoritarismus und Utopie?“ an der Karlshochschule:
Gastprofessur für Kritische Gesellschaftstheorie an der Uni Gießen:
https://kritischetheoriejlu.wordpress.com/aktuelle-gastprofessur/
Neupert-Doppler, A. (2021). Organisation. Von Avantgardepartei bis Organizing. Schmetterling Verlag.
https://schmetterling-verlag.de/produkt/organisation/
Neupert-Doppler, A. (2019). Die Gelegenheit ergreifen. Eine politische Philosophie des Kairós. mandelbaum Verlag.
https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/alexander-neupert-doppler/die-gelegenheit-ergreifen/
Neupert-Doppler, A. (Hrsg.). (2018). Konkrete Utopien. Unsere Alternativen zum Nationalismus. Schmetterling Verlag.
https://schmetterling-verlag.de/produkt/konkrete-utopien/
Neupert-Doppler, A. (2013). Staatsfetischismus. Zur Rekonstruktion eines umstrittenen Begriffs. LIT Verlag.
https://lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-12336-7/
zu Kairos in der griechischen Mythologie:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos
Demirović, A. (2022). Vielfachkrise und Katastrophe. Luxemburg – Gesellschaftsanalyse und Linke Praxis 3/2022.
https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/vielfachkrise-und-katastrophe/
Klein, N. (2021). Die Schock-Strategie. Der Aufstieg des Katastrophen-Kapitalismus. Hoffmann und Campe.
https://hoffmann-und-campe.de/products/54327-die-schockstrategie
Benjamin, W. (2010). Über den Begriff der Geschichte. Suhrkamp.
Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen (DWE):
DWEs Entwurf für die Anstalt öffentlichen Rechts für Berlins vergesellschaftete Wohnungsbestände:
https://content.dwenteignen.de/uploads/Gemeingut_Wohnen_3a03fa4c87.pdf
zur Novemberrevolution 1918:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novemberrevolution
zum Mai 1968 in Frankreich:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_1968_in_Frankreich
zur Reise der EZLN nach Hannover:
https://amerika21.de/2021/06/251702/escuadron-421-reise-europa
zur Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ej%C3%A9rcito_Zapatista_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional
zur Rätedemokratie als Organisationsform:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A4terepublik
zur Neuen Linken:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Linke
zu Rosa Luxemburg:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg
Luxemburg, R. (1906). Massenstreik, Partei und Gewerkschaften.
https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/luxemburg/1906/mapage/index.htm
zur Geschichte der Sozialdemokratie in Deutschland:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_der_deutschen_Sozialdemokratie
zu Genossenschaften:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genossenschaft
zu Max Horkheimer:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Horkheimer
Horkheimer, M. (1940/1987). Autoritärer Staat. In: Gesammelte Schriften Band 5. S. Fischer.
Ende Gelände:
https://www.ende-gelaende.org/
zu Anarchosyndikalismus:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchosyndikalismus
die #wirfahrenzusammen Kampagne von Friday for Futures und ver.di:
https://www.wir-fahren-zusammen.de/
zu Georg Lukács:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Luk%C3%A1cs
Lukács, G. (1920/2013). Zur Frage des Parlamentarismus. In: Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein. Aisthesis Verlag.
https://www.aisthesis.de/Lukacs-Georg-Geschichte-und-Klassenbewusstsein
zur Münchner Räterepublik:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchner_R%C3%A4terepublik
Gradin, S. S. & Raekstad, P. (2019). Prefigurative Politics. Building Tomorrow Today. Polity Press.
zur Geschichte von Bündnis90/Die Grünen:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_von_B%C3%BCndnis_90/Die_Gr%C3%BCnen
zu Rudi Dutschke:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudi_Dutschke
über die Occupy Bewegung:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
zu Ernst Bloch:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Bloch
Vortrag „zur Geschichte und Aktualität der Organisation“ bei Helle Panke:
https://youtu.be/3otTRI7TfaQ?si=0-kF8shb3N2p-owk
Grüne Jugend:
Bewegungslinke:
Basisgewerkschaft FAU:
Interventionistische Linke:
https://interventionistische-linke.org/
Das Netzwerk, welches sich um den Konflikt um Fabrikgelände in der Nordstadt Hannovers gegründet hat:
https://bumkeselbermachen.noblogs.org/start/
Rote Hilfe e.V.:
Sozialistische Jugend Deutschlands – Die Falken:
https://www.wir-falken.de/de/Index
Mietshäuser Syndikat:
Ackersyndikat:
zu Public-Common Partnerships:
https://www.in-abundance.org/what-is-a-public-commons-parntership
Hardt, M. & Negri, A. (2018). Assembly. Die neue demokratische Ordnung. Campus.
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal. A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal
zu den Piqueteros:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piquetero
zu den besetzten Betrieben in Argentinien:
zur Solidarischen Landwirtschaft (Solawis):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarische_Landwirtschaft
zur Argentinien-Krise 2001:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinien-Krise
zu K-Gruppen:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Gruppe
Fernando, J. W. et al. (2018). Functions of Utopia. How Utopian Thinking Motivates Societal Engagement. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 44.
zu Immanuel Wallerstein:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Wallerstein
Thematisch angrenzende Folgen
S03E49 | Justus Henze zum Vergesellschaftungsgesetz von DWE
S03E48 | Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell on Radical Abundance
S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren
S03E45 | Luise Meier zu kommunistischem Utopisieren
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e45-luise-meier-zu-kommunistischem-utopisieren/
S03E42 | Rüdiger Haude und Thomas Wagner zu herrschaftsfreien Institutionen
S03E26 | Cleo und Lukas zur Interventionistischen Linken im Umbruch
S03E18 | Indigo Drau und Jonna Klick zu Revolution als Commonisierung
S03E13 | Yanira Wolf zu Arbeitskämpfen, Organizing und konkretem Utopisieren
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Sunday Nov 09, 2025
Sunday Nov 09, 2025
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:
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.
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):
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.
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:
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
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
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
S01E32 | 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)
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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
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Episode Keywords
#AaronBenanav, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #Transition, #DemocraticPlanning, #Keynes, #Efficiency, #Economics, #NeoclassicalEconomics, #NeoclassicalSocialism, #OttoNeurath, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Capitalism, #Economics, #Socialism, #Socialisation, #Investment, #Degrowth, #UniversalBasicServices, #CareWork
Sunday Oct 26, 2025
Sunday Oct 26, 2025
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:
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:
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.
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):
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.
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:
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
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S3E47 | 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
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
S01E32 | 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)
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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
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Sunday Oct 12, 2025
Sunday Oct 12, 2025
Justus Henze zum neuen Vergesellschaftungsgesetz von Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen.
Shownotes
Website der Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen (DWE) Kampagne:
aktuelle Termine der DWE Kampagne:
https://dwenteignen.de/aktuelles/termine
bei der DWE Kampagne mitmachen:
https://dwenteignen.de/mitmachen
der DWE Kampagne spenden:
https://dwenteignen.de/spenden
zum Vergesellschaftungsgesetz:
https://dwenteignen.de/unser-gesetz
zur Expert*innenkommission:
https://www.berlin.de/kommission-vergesellschaftung/
der Abschlussbericht der Komission:
Artikel 15 des Grundgesetzes:
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_15.html
zu Artikel 15 und Vergesellschaftung:
https://www.rosalux.de/news/id/45847/was-kann-artikel-15-grundgesetz
zur bundesweiten Kampagne für einen Mietendeckel:
https://dwenteignen.de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten/kampagne-fuer-bundesweiten-mietendeckel-gestartet
zum Entwurf für die Anstalt öffentlichen Rechts:
https://content.dwenteignen.de/uploads/Gemeingut_Wohnen_3a03fa4c87.pdf
zu historischen Sozialisierungsdebatten:
https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/von-sozialisierung/
Wiener Wohnen:
zum Roten Wien:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotes_Wien
communia:
Gutachten zur rechtlichen Machbarkeit der Vergesellschaftung von Energiekonzernen:
https://communia.de/energiekonzerne-enteignen-das-geht/
RWE & Co Enteignen:
Thematisch angrenzende Folgen
S03E22 | Barbara Fried und Alex Wischnewski zu sorgenden Städten
S03E13 | Yanira Wolf zu Arbeitskämpfen, Organizing und konkretem Utopisieren
S03E10 | Katharina Keil zu Vergesellschaftung und Transformation
S02E59 | Lemon und Lukas von communia zu öffentlichem Luxus
S02E57 | Jenny Stupka zum Kampf um Vergesellschaftung
S02E35 | Cara Röhner zu Gemeinwirtschaft und der Solidarität im Recht
S02E29 | Max und Lemon von communia zu Vergesellschaftung und demokratischer Wirtschaft
S02E23 | Nina Scholz zu den wunden Punkten von Google, Amazon, Deutsche Wohnen & Co.
S01E15 | Rouzbeh Taheri zu Enteignung, Vergesellschaftung & demokratischem Sozialismus
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Sunday Sep 28, 2025
Sunday Sep 28, 2025
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):
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.
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
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:
the Berlin Housing Campaign:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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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S3E44 | Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e44-anna-kornbluh-on-climate-counteraesthetics/
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalism
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
S02E51 | Silvia Federici on Progress, Reproduction and Commoning
S02E13 | 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
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Episode Keywords
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Sunday Sep 14, 2025
Sunday Sep 14, 2025
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:
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.
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:
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:
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 Wilson Labour Government”:
https://www.declassifieduk.org/a-possible-coup-against-the-labour-government/
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/history/the-cold-war/the-wilson-plot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/15/comment.labour1
on the actions of the US against North Korea in the Korean War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Korean_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warfare_in_the_Korean_War
on the Cultural Revolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
on Mao’s concept of the Mass Line:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch11.htm
on Jung’s concept of the Collective unconscious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious
on (Neo-)Malthusianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism
Ehrlich, P. R. (1971). The Population Bomb. Ballantine Books.
http://pinguet.free.fr/ehrlich68.pdf
Tainter, J. A. (1988). The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.sustainable.soltechdesigns.com/Joseph-A-Tainter-The-collapse-of-complex-societies.pdf
on Millenarianism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism
Enzensberger, H. M. (1978). Two Notes on the End of the World. New Left Review. I/110.
Hansen, J. (2010). Storms of my Grandchildren. The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity. Bloomsbury.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/storms-of-my-grandchildren-9781408807460/
Sweezy, P.M. (1990). Monopoly Capitalism. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds) Marxian Economics. Palgrave Macmillan.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20572-1_44
on Technofeudalism:
Varoufakis, Y. (2024). Technofeudalism. What Killed Capitalism. Penguin.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
Durand, C. (2024). How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism. The Making of the Digital Economy. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2790-how-silicon-valley-unleashed-techno-feudalism
Culture, Power and Politics Podcast episode on the debate around the concept “Technofeudalism”:
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/07/04/is-capitalism-over-the-technofeudalism-debate/
Conservation International:
Earth League International:
https://earthleagueinternational.org/
Rockström, J. et al. (2024). The Planetary Commons. A new Paradigm for Safeguarding Earth-regulating Systems in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301531121
the Trilateral Commission:
the Earth Commission:
Johan Rockström’s interview in the Guardian:
Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics
S3E44 | Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e44-anna-kornbluh-on-climate-counteraesthetics/
S03E33 | Tadzio Müller zu solidarischem Preppen im Kollaps
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown
S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentality
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/
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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
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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Sunday Aug 31, 2025
Sunday Aug 31, 2025
Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus und möglichen Alternativen.
Shownotes
Rahel Jaeggi an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (inkl. Publikationsliste):
https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/arbeitsbereiche/jaeggi/mitarbeiter/jaeggi_rahel
das Center for Social Critique:
https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/arbeitsbereiche/jaeggi/hscberlin/hscberlin
https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/
Jaeggi, R. (2023). Fortschritt und Regression. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/rahel-jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression-t-9783518587140
Fraser, N., & Jaeggi, R. (2020). Kapitalismus. Ein Gespräch über kritische Theorie. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/kapitalismus-t-9783518299074
Jaeggi, R. (2013). Kritik von Lebensformen. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/rahel-jaeggi-kritik-von-lebensformen-t-9783518295878
Müller, T. (2024). Zwischen friedlicher Sabotage und Kollaps. Wie ich lernte, die Zukunft wieder zu lieben. Mandelbaum.
https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/tadzio-mueller/zwischen-friedlicher-sabotage-und-kollaps/
der erwähnte Kohei Saito Social Media Clip:
https://youtube.com/shorts/WnvhD7p651M?si=BTLXgEoddYjDfmNa
Neupert-Doppler, A. (2022). Vom utopischen Sozialismus zur sozialistischen Utopie. Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte. Ausgabe 12/2022.
https://www.frankfurter-hefte.de/artikel/vom-utopischen-sozialismus-zur-sozialistischen-utopie-3572/
Staab, P. (2022). Anpassung. Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-anpassung-t-9783518127797
Benjamin, W. (2010). Über den Begriff der Geschichte. Suhrkamp.
https://www.walter-benjamin-online.de/band/ueber-den-begriff-der-geschichte/
zum Hannah Arendt Zitat:
Jaeggi, R. (2022). Solidarität als zärtliche Bürgerlichkeit. Verstreute Überlegungen mit und zur Gemeinschaft der Ungewählten. In: Fitsch, H. et al. (Eds.), Der Welt eine neue Wirklichkeit geben (97-108). Transcript Verlag.
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839461686-009/html
Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3.
https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline
zum Zitat zu historisch-technologischem Determinismus:
Marx, L. (1885) Das Elend der Philosophie. Antwort auf Proudhons „Philosophie des Elends“. Dietz.
https://archive.org/details/ldpd_14861084_000/page/n3/mode/2up
zu John Dewey:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey
zum Pragmatismus:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatismus
Dewey, J. (2008). Logik. Die Theorie der Forschung.
https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/john-dewey-logik-t-9783518295021
zu Hannah Arendt:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt
Solmaz, K. (2016). Das Politische bei Arendt. HannahArendt.Net, 8(1).
https://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/view/349
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
zu Marx’s Konzept des “passiven Moments der Revolution“:
https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/marx-engels/1852/brumaire/index.htm
zum Stand um den Volksentscheid der „Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen“ Kampagne:
https://dwenteignen.de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten
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
zum Putsch in Chile 1973:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putsch_in_Chile_1973
zu „nicht-reformistischen Reformen“:
Jaeggi, R. (2024). Solidarität mit dem Liberalismus im Augenblick seines Sturzes. Leviathan, 52. Jg., Sonderband 42/2024, S. 351–377
zur Frankfurter Schule:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Schule
zu Marcuse:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse
zu Adorno:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_W._Adorno
Thematisch angrenzende Folgen
S03E45 | Luise Meier zu kommunistischem Utopisieren
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e45-luise-meier-zu-kommunistischem-utopisieren
S03E44 | Anna Kornbluh on Climate Counteraesthetics
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e44-anna-kornbluh-on-climate-counteraesthetics/
S03E33 | Tadzio Müller zu Solidarischem Preppen im Kollaps
S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline
S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries
S02E30 | Philipp Staab zu Anpassung
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e30-philipp-staab-zu-anpassung/
S02E06 | Alexander Kluge zu Zukünften der Kooperation
S02E03 | Ute Tellmann zu Ökonomie als Kultur
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e03-ute-tellmann-zu-oekonomie-als-kultur/
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Bei weiterem Interesse am Thema demokratische Wirtschaftsplanung können diese Ressourcen hilfreich sein:
Demokratische Planung – eine Infoseite
https://www.demokratische-planung.de/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (Hrsg.).(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (Hrsg.). (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
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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