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/9780415742924Working 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.pdfFriedrich A. Hayek "The Use of Knowledge in Society"
https://mises.org/library/use-knowledge-societyFriedrich A Hayek "Economics and Knowledge"
https://mises.org/library/economics-and-knowledgeFriedrich A. Hayek "Collectivist Economic Planing" (full book)
https://cdn.mises.org/Collectivist%20Economic%20Planning_2.pdfWiki 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=1Otto Neurath "Economic Plan and Calculation in Kind"
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/1-4020-2274-3_14Enrico Barone "The Ministry of Production in the Collectivist State"
https://www.jstor.org/preview-page/10.2307/43828055?seq=1H.D. Dickinson "Price Formation in a Socialist Community"
https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/43/170/237/5267408?redirectedFrom=fulltextKarl Marx "Capital Volume I" (full book)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdfKarl Marx "Capital Volume II" (full book)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/index.htmFree 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/9780415742924Paul Cockshott & Allin Cottrell "Towards a new socialism" (full book)
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdfLeigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski "The People’s Republic of Walmart"
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmartEvgeny Morozov "Digital Socialism?"
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialismFrancis Spufford "Red Plenty" (novel)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6481280-red-plentyNick Dyer-Witheford "Red Plenty Platforms"
https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/511-1153-1-PB.pdfshort 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/1149Jacobin article "Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work" by Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/economic-planning-walmart-democracy-socialismPaper "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/x60xjdlWiki on "zero-knowledge proofs"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proofReview of Daniel's book by John Willoughby
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0486613416665833Eva 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