This week, we talk with Michael Albert about Parecon and his new book No Bosses.

This is the first of three episodes with Michael, where we ease into the topic and then we jump off and have great fun as we get into an extremely detailed debate on the planning aspects of Parecon.

This week we jump headlong into Chapter 2 : ‘The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’.

The Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RfG5oI3vCX6Z7pB3GfCH68CmYRBwrBecNIkwOgQKo4g/edit?usp=sharing

Panelists:
Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer
Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia
Kyle - General Intellect Unit 
Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia 11

This is part two of our discussion with Prof Andrew Kliman, where we debate my current love affair with ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’ by Jan Appel and the Group of International Communists.

This week we welcome back Prof. Andrew Kliman to the show. We get deep into some more value theory, specifically discussing the difference between concrete and abstract labour, simple and complex labour, and do slaves create value....

The really excellent Patrick Murray value form debate episodes mentioned in the episode:

https://soundcloud.com/mhi-120639128/rfh-murray-interview-ep-1
https://soundcloud.com/mhi-120639128/rfh-murray-interview-part-2

Also, the paper we are discussing is from the book 'The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics' and  is called 'The Duality of Labour'.

This week the GIC take aim at the left communists and anarchists for their political economy errors

We finish reading chapter 1 - ‘From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis’.

The Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MR6WdBBEKSTYcrN7CZ4_LL8S6k9SJKHfmOBxz_1vqMU/edit?usp=sharing

Panelists:

Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer

Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia

Kyle - General Intellect Unit

Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia

We read and discuss Chapter 4 - ‘Progress in the formulation of the problem”.

This week we read Chapter 3 - ‘The Unit of Account in Communism’

We continue our discussion of chapter 1 - ‘From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis’. 

The Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MR6WdBBEKSTYcrN7CZ4_LL8S6k9SJKHfmOBxz_1vqMU/edit?usp=sharing

Panelists:

Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer

Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia

Kyle - General Intellect Unit

Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia

Patron Chris and I discuss the excellent article ‘Marx’s critique of socialist labor-money schemes and the myth of council communism’s Proudhonism’ - by David Adam.

https://libcom.org/library/marx%E2%80%99s-critique-socialist-labor-money-schemes-myth-council-communism%E2%80%99s-proudhonism