We continue our discussion with Prof. Robin Hahnel on the ins and outs of the planning procedures of Participatory Economy.

We welcome Prof. Robin Hahnel to the show. Prof. Hahnel and previous guest Michael Albert are the people who came up with Participatory Economy, or Parecon, a vision of a de-centrally planned socialist economy. We discuss Parecon Planning and Allocation in great detail!

Today we read Chapter 14: ‘The Control of Operational Life’.

This week we read Chapter 13: ‘The Expansion of Production’.

We pick back up where we left off in our discussion with Xur about what can be salvaged from the wreck of the blockchain and crypto scene for our future communist society.

We welcome Xur to the show, to talk about all things blockchain and cryptography. In this first part 1 we dig deep into the technical problems associated with the current crypto scene. In part 2 we pick the corpse of the blockchain to salvage what we can for our future communist society.

We continue with our reading of Chapter 2 - ‘Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’.

This episode was editing by the Jordan. Thanks so much, Jordan!

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

Panelists:
Derick - Mortal Science, Varn Vlog
Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia
Kyle - General Intellect Unit
Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia

After a post covid lull, we welcome to the show Prof Helen Scott, editor of the Haymarket books version of the Rosa Luxemburg classics ‘Reform or Revolution’ and ‘The Mass Strike’. In this episode we discuss ‘Reform of Revolution’, Rosa’s text which critiqued ‘Evolutionary Socialism’, the seminal revisionist work of the dark lord of reform within the SPD, Eduard Bernstein.

Helen is currently working on Volume 5 of the complete works of Rosa Luxemburg, which is due to be released in the coming months. If you’d like to help contribute to this mammoth undertaking, you can donate here:

https://www.toledotranslationfund.org/complete_works_rosa_luxemburg

Today we read Chapter 12: ‘The Abolition of the Market’.

We welcome back Andrew Kliman to the show, to talk about a paper he recently published about the Breakdown Model of Henryk Grossman.

The paper, which contains the link to the Spanish translation:

https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/economics/henryk-grossmanns-breakdown-model-on-the-real-cause-of-the-fictitious-breakdown-tendency.html