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":
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):
Socialist Calculation Debate 2.0:
Daniel E. Saros "Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism":
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":
"The Political Economy of Participatory Economics" by Michael Albert & Robin Hahnel:
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