S01E32 - Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2) - a podcast by Jan Groos

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Part 2 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.


Shownotes


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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