S01E32 - Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2)

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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