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S01E31 - Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1)


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Part 1 of the in depth interview with Daniel E Saros.

 

While many are unsatisfied with capitalism and critique it in highly sophisticated ways, there are few concrete proposals for a socialist mode of production that could replace the capitalist one. Daniel E. Saros has developed such a proposal in his book "Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism" which we discuss at length over the course of two episodes.

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Information on and works by Daniel E. Saros

Saros, E. Daniel. 2014. Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Oxfordshire: Routledge:

https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and/Saros/p/book/9780415742924


Saros, E. Daniel. 2019. "Information Technology and the Socialist Mode of Production: A Simulation of the Point Allocation System". Preprint. Annual Meeting of American Economic Association 2020 (zuletzt aufgerufen Dezember 2020):

https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2020/preliminary/paper/YhNBnTeh


Selected works:

https://works.bepress.com/daniel-saros/

 

On the historical socialist calculation debate

The Austrians (selection)

Mises, v. Ludwig. 1990. Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth. Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute. (full book):

https://cdn.mises.org/Economic%20Calculation%20in%20the%20Socialist%20Commonwealth_Vol_2_3.pdf


Hayek, F. A. 2011. “The Use of Knowledge in Society”. Mises Daily Articles:

https://mises.org/library/use-knowledge-society


Hayek, F. A. 2005. "Economics and Knowledge". Mises Daily Articles:

https://mises.org/library/economics-and-knowledge


Hayek, F. A. 1963. Collectivist Economic Planning. London: Routledge:

https://cdn.mises.org/Collectivist%20Economic%20Planning_2.pdf


Wiki on the Austrian School of Economics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School


The Socialists (selection):


Lange, O. 1936. “On the Economic Theory of Socialism: Part One”. The Review of Economic Studies, 4(1): 53–71:

https://www.jstor.org/preview-page/10.2307/2967660?seq=1


Neurath O. 2005. “Economic Plan and Calculation in Kind”. In Otto Neurath Economic Writings Selections 1904–1945. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 23. Wiesbaden: Springer:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-2274-3_14


Barone, E. 2012. “THE MINISTRY OF PRODUCTION IN THE COLLECTIVIST STATE”. Giornale Degli Economisti e Annali Di Economia, 71(Anno 125)(2/3): 75–112:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/43828055


D. Dickinson. 1933. “Price Formation in a Socialist Community”. The Economic Journal, Volume 43, Issue 170, 1 June 1933: 237–250:

https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/43/170/237/5267408?redirectedFrom=fulltext


Marx, Karl. 1887. "Capital Volume I". marxists.org:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf


Marx. Karl. 1878. "Capital Volume II". marxists.org:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/index.htm


Free online courses by David Harvey "Reading Marx's Capital":

http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/


Other historical voices (selection):


Schumpeter, Joseph A. Capitalism. 1976. Socialism and Democracy. London: Routledge. Full book:

https://eet.pixel-online.org/files/etranslation/original/Schumpeter,%20Capitalism,%20Socialism%20and%20Democracy.pdf


Socialist Calculation Debate 2.0

Saros, Daniel E. 2014. Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. London: Routledge:

https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and/Saros/p/book/9780415742924


Cockshott, Paul and Allin Cottrell. 2000. Towards a new socialism. Nottingham: Russell Press. Full book:

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf


Phillips, Leigh and Michal Rozworski. 2019. The People’s Republic of Walmart. London: Verso:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart


Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. "Digital Socialism?". New Left Review vol. 116/117:

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism


Spufford, Francis. 2010. Red Plenty. London: Faber and Faber. (novel):

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6481280-red-plenty


Dyer-Witheford, Nick. 2013. "Red Plenty Platforms". Culture Machine vol. 14:

https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/511-1153-1-PB.pdf


Fuchs, Christina (Hg.). 2020. Communicative Socialism/Digital Socialism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 18 (1): 1-285:

https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1149


Phillips, Leigh and Michal Rozworski. 2019. "Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work". Jacobin Magazine:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/economic-planning-walmart-democracy-socialism


Malloy, Michael. 2019. "Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century". New Socialist:

https://newsocialist.org.uk/economic-planning-and-degrowth/

 

additional shownotes


Wiki Ayn Rand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand


Curtis, Adam. 2011. All watched over by machines of loving grace. London: BBC:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60xjdl


Wiki on "zero-knowledge proofs":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof


Willoughby, John. 2017. “Book Review: Information Technology and Socialist Construction: The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism”. In Review of Radical Political Economics vol. 50(2): 427- 443:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0486613416665833


Redecker, v. Eva.  "Refiguring Revolution. A new Theory of Radical Change". Essay. Academia.edu (zuletzt abgerufen Dezember 2021):

https://www.academia.edu/39903778/Refiguring_Revolution._A_Critical_Theory_of_Social_Transformation_introduction_and_content_table_transl._by_Lucy_Duggan_


Hahnel, Robin und Michael Albert. 1991. The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691003849/the-political-economy-of-participatory-economics



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