We talk with the Swedish Procurement Guru Emanuel all about capitalist procurement theory, the flaws of standard economic demand and supply theory, and what allocation, or the lack of, in capitalism can teach us about planning a communist society.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraljic_matrix

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Episode 169: #169 Procurement & Capitalist Price Dynamics - TEASER

We finish Chapter 7: ‘The Communist Production’, and read Chapter 8: ‘ The Socially Average Working Hour as the Basis of Production’.

Episode 170: #008 Fundamental Principles Series

 This week we tackle Chapter 6 - ‘ The Social Production Process in General’ and Chapter 7: ‘The Communist Production’. 

Episode 169: #007 Fundamental Principles Series

This is part three of our detailed discussion with Michael Alberts about Parecon and its planning system.

Episode 168: #168 No Bosses w/ Michael Albert - Pt 3 TEASER

This week, we continue our discussion with Michael Albert, where we take a deep dive in the Parecon planning model.

Episode 167: #167 No Bosses w/ Michael Albert - Pt 2

This week, we talk with Michael Albert about Parecon and his new book No Bosses.This is the first of three episodes with Michael, where we ease into the topic and then we jump off and have great fun as we get into an extremely detailed debate on the planning aspects of Parecon.

Episode 166: #166 No Bosses w/ Michael Albert - Pt 1

This week we jump headlong into Chapter 2 : ‘The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’.The Slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RfG5oI3vCX6Z7pB3GfCH68CmYRBwrBecNIkwOgQKo4g/edit?usp=sharingPanelists:Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a HammerEzri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit UtopiaKyle - General Intellect Unit Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia 11

Episode 257: #006 Understanding Class Series

This is part two of our discussion with Prof Andrew Kliman, where we debate my current love affair with ‘The Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’ by Jan Appel and the Group of International Communists.

Episode 256: #165 Not Necessary, Not Sufficient w/ Andrew Kliman TEASER

This week we welcome back Prof. Andrew Kliman to the show. We get deep into some more value theory, specifically discussing the difference between concrete and abstract labour, simple and complex labour, and do slaves create value....The really excellent Patrick Murray value form debate episodes mentioned in the episode:https://soundcloud.com/mhi-120639128/rfh-murray-interview-ep-1https://soundcloud.com/mhi-120639128/rfh-murray-interview-part-2Also, the paper we are discussing is from the book 'The New Value Controversy and the Foundations of Economics' and  is called 'The Duality of Labour'.

Episode 255: #164 Concrete vs Abstract Labour w/ Andrew Kliman

This week the GIC take aim at the left communists and anarchists for their political economy errors

Episode 254: #006 Fundamental Principles Series

We finish reading chapter 1 - ‘From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis’.The Slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MR6WdBBEKSTYcrN7CZ4_LL8S6k9SJKHfmOBxz_1vqMU/edit?usp=sharingPanelists:Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a HammerEzri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit UtopiaKyle - General Intellect UnitTiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia

Episode 253: #005 Understand Class Series

We read and discuss Chapter 4 - ‘Progress in the formulation of the problem”.

Episode 252: #005 Fundamental Principles Series

This week we read Chapter 3 - ‘The Unit of Account in Communism’

Episode 251: #004 Fundamental Principles Series

We continue our discussion of chapter 1 - ‘From Grand Paradigm Battles to Pragmatist Realism: Towards an Integrated Class Analysis’. The Slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MR6WdBBEKSTYcrN7CZ4_LL8S6k9SJKHfmOBxz_1vqMU/edit?usp=sharingPanelists:Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a HammerEzri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit UtopiaKyle - General Intellect UnitTiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia

Episode 250: #004 Understand Class Series

Patron Chris and I discuss the excellent article ‘Marx’s critique of socialist labor-money schemes and the myth of council communism’s Proudhonism’ - by David Adam.https://libcom.org/library/marx%E2%80%99s-critique-socialist-labor-money-schemes-myth-council-communism%E2%80%99s-proudhonism

Episode 249: #163 Labour Money Schemes & Marx

What is happening to our economy and our politics? Are we stuck forever in this corporate dystopia? What can we learn from the failures of radical politics over the last 100 years? Tom O'Brien talks in depth to experts from the fields of Political Economy, Politics, Science, Philosophy, Complexity, Mathematics, Music, and the Environment.

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