October 29, 2023

S02E58 - Søren Mau on Planning and Freedom

1 hour 12 minutes

Søren Mau on how communism can produce freedom through planning.

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Shownotes

Søren Mau:

https://sorenmau.com/

Søren auf Twitter:

https://twitter.com/sorenmau?lang=de

Mau, Søren. 2019. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Vero Books.:

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2759-mute-compulsion

Mau, Søren. 2023. Stummer Zwang. Eine marxistische Analyse der Macht im Kapitalismus. Karl Diets.:

https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/stummer-zwang/

Further Shownotes

Mau, Søren. 2023. Communism is Freedom. Verso Books.:

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/communism-is-freedom

Mau, Søren. 2023. Kommunismus ist Freiheit. Jacobin Magazine:

https://jacobin.de/artikel/kommunismus-ist-freiheit-demokratie-zukunftsvision-kooperation-ressourcen-soren-mau

Pat Devine (Wikipedia):

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

Karl Marx (Monoskop):

https://monoskop.org/Karl_Marx

Marx, Karl. A contribution to the critique of political economy. 1904. Chicago. International Library Publishing Co. (PDF):

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Contribution_to_the_Critique_of_Political_Economy.pdf

Marx's critique of capitalism (Wikipedia):

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

Marx, Karl. 1932. The German Ideology. Moscow. Progress Publishers. (PDF):

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_The_German_Ideology.pdf

Marx, Karl. 1867. Capital. A critique of political economy. Volume 1. English edition 1887. Moscow. Progress Publishers (PDF):

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

Robert Brenner (Wikipedia):

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

Political economy (Wikipedia):

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

Value Theory (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_value_(economics)

Aaron Benanav (Website):

https://www.aaronbenanav.com/

Benanav, Aaron. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work. London: Verso 2020:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3717-automation-and-the-future-of-work

Benanav, Aaron. 2021. Automatisierung und die Zukunft der Arbeit. Berlin: Suhrkamp:

https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/aaron-benanav-automatisierung-und-die-zukunft-der-arbeit-t-9783518127704

Benanav, Aaron. 2020. How to Make a Pencil. Logic Magazine, 12 (Open Access):

https://logicmag.io/commons/how-to-make-a-pencil/

Devine, Pat. 1988. Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of a self-governing society. New York: Routledge.:

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429033117/democracy-economic-planning-pat-devine

Devine, Pat. 2002. Participatory Planning Through Negotiated Coordination. In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1.No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 72-85:

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/epdfplus/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001

Devine, Pat. 2022. Negotiated Coordination and Socialist Democracy. In Laibman, David and Campbell, Al. (Ed.), (En)Visioning Socialism IV: Raising the Future in Our Imaginations Before Raising It in Reality. In Science & Society, Vol. 86, No. 2. New York: Guilford Publications.:

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.140

David Laibman:

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

Louis Althusser (Monoskop):

https://monoskop.org/Louis_Althusser

Althuser, Louis. Marxism and Humanism. In: Marxist Internet Archive. First appeared in the Cahiers de l’I.S.E.A., June 1964.:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1964/marxism-humanism.htm

Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics

S02E33 | Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e33-pat-devine-on-negotiated-coordination/

S02E19 | David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e19-david-laibman-on-multilevel-democratic-iterative-coordination/

S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/

S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/

(German) S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plans:

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/

(German) S02E14 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part1):

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e14-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-1/

(German) S02E15 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part 2):

https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e15-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-2/

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