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

• Daniel E. Saros at Valparaiso University
  https://www.valpo.edu/economics/about/faculty-and-staff/daniel-e-saros/

• Daniel's book "Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism"
  https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and/Saros/p/book/9780415742924

• Working Paper "Information Technology and the Socialist Mode of Production: A Simulation of the Point Allocation System"
  https://works.bepress.com/daniel-saros/19/

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

On the historical socialist calculation debate

The Austrians (selection)

• Ludwig von Mises "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" (full book)
  https://cdn.mises.org/Economic%20Calculation%20in%20the%20Socialist%20Commonwealth_Vol_2_3.pdf

• Friedrich A. Hayek "The Use of Knowledge in Society"
  https://mises.org/library/use-knowledge-society

• Friedrich A Hayek "Economics and Knowledge"
  https://mises.org/library/economics-and-knowledge

• Friedrich A. Hayek "Collectivist Economic Planing" (full book)
  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)

• Oskar Lange “On the Economic Theory of Socialism: Part One.”
  https://www.jstor.org/preview-page/10.2307/2967660?seq=1

• Otto Neurath "Economic Plan and Calculation in Kind"
  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-2274-3_14

• Enrico Barone "The Ministry of Production in the Collectivist State"
  https://www.jstor.org/preview-page/10.2307/43828055?seq=1

• H.D. Dickinson "Price Formation in a Socialist Community"
  https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/43/170/237/5267408?redirectedFrom=fulltext

• Karl Marx "Capital Volume I" (full book)
  https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf

• Karl Marx "Capital Volume II" (full book)
  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)

• Joseph A. Schumpeter "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" (full book)
  https://eet.pixel-online.org/files/etranslation/original/Schumpeter,%20Capitalism,%20Socialism%20and%20Democracy.pdf

Socialist Calculation Debate 2.0

• Daniel E. Saros "Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism"
  https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and/Saros/p/book/9780415742924

• Paul Cockshott & Allin Cottrell "Towards a new socialism" (full book)
  http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf

• Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski "The People’s Republic of Walmart"
  https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart

• Evgeny Morozov "Digital Socialism?"
  https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism

• Francis Spufford "Red Plenty" (novel)
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6481280-red-plenty

• Nick Dyer-Witheford "Red Plenty Platforms"
  https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/511-1153-1-PB.pdf

• short introduction to the Socialist Calculation Debate in Ep. S01E02 of Future Histories (German language)https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01e02-socialist-calculation-debate

• Future Histories Ep. S01E19 Jan Philipp Dapprich on socialist planned economies (German language)https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01e19-jan-philipp-dapprich

• triple C – special edition on digital socialism (edited by Christian Fuchs)
  https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1149

• Jacobin article "Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work" by Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski
  https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/economic-planning-walmart-democracy-socialism

• Paper "Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century" by Michael Malloy
  https://newsocialist.org.uk/economic-planning-and-degrowth/

additional shownotes

• Wiki Ayn Rand
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

• "All watched over by machines of loving grace" documentary by Adam Curtis
  https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x60xjdl

• Wiki on "zero-knowledge proofs"
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

• Review of Daniel's book by John Willoughby
  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0486613416665833

• Eva von Redecker "Refiguring Revolution. A new Theory of Radical Change"
  https://www.academia.edu/39903778/Refiguring_Revolution._A_Critical_Theory_of_Social_Transformation_introduction_and_content_table_transl._by_Lucy_Duggan_

• "The Political Economy of Participatory Economics" by Michael Albert & Robin Hahnel
  https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691003849/the-political-economy-of-participatory-economics