This week Donal  and myself discuss a really excellent book we recently read on the socialist calculation debate. The book is called Rivalry and Central Planning, and is written by the Austrian economist Don Lavoie.

The Book Project:

https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/FromAlpha2Omega

We welcome Peter Åström to the podcast, to discuss an article he recently wrote for the Riff-Raff journal. Riff-raff describes itself as a ‘journal for a theoretical discussion of communism as a real movement’.

The article: 

http://www.riff-raff.se/texts/en/the-commodity-and-communism

The book project:

https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

We continue our discussion of Chapter 9 - “Is the Precariat a Class''. 

Our socialist planning book project: theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com

We continue our discussion of LL Mens "The Capitalist Nature of the 'Socialist' Countries: A Politico-Economic Analysis"

Today Donal and myself discuss an amazing text by the little known Hong Kong based Left Communist L.L. Men.

You can download the text from libcom.org here:
https://libcom.org/article/ll-men-two-texts-defining-communist-programme

The self-publishing friendly version of the pdf:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jQYDzqw_dLIDYc1zt8B9tRdE-DvCXLsQ/view?usp=sharing

Book Project:
https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

We start our discussion of  Chapter 9 - “Is the Precariat a Class''. 

Book Project:  theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com. 

The slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oNY1SPxFk0Xg-NndRJPh0l_cOWyLMOGY6rFhC0zGIyc/edit?usp=share_link

We continue our discussion of  Chapter 8 - “The Death of Class Debate''.

Drunken Russian Miners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgnmWYy-9ds&ab_channel=JustBenii

Socialist planning book: https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oNY1SPxFk0Xg-NndRJPh0l_cOWyLMOGY6rFhC0zGIyc/edit?usp=share_link

We are delighted welcome back Prof. Peter Hudis to the show to talk about the introduction he wrote for the new edition of the Critique of the Gotha Program by PM Press.

Critique of the Gotha Program (PM Press):
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1241

Book Project:
https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

We welcome back Donal to the show, to talk about a paper he wrote for the new radical journal - The Black Lamp. The paper is called: 

‘Viability Guided Decision Making: Modelling organisations using Viability Guided Decision Making’

It’s a very interesting paper which proposes a novel approach to fairly recent developments in cybernetic theory, and applying them to complex social systems. Donal, on top of the book project we are working on, has just completed a masters in System Engineering & Engineering Cybernetics in the Kazan National Research University over in Russia.

The paper:
https://www.black-lamp.com/posts/modelling-organisations-using-viability-guided-decision-making

The Socialist Planning Book Project:
https://theclasslesssocietyinmotion.com/

We continue our discussion of  Chapter 8 - “The Death of Class Debate''.

The Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oNY1SPxFk0Xg-NndRJPh0l_cOWyLMOGY6rFhC0zGIyc/edit?usp=share_link