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Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital

Jan Groos, Daniel E. Saros
Future Histories, 2020
Level: advanced
Perspective: Marxian Political Economy
Topic: Innovation & Technology, Social movements & Transformation
Format: Podcast
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbcuLrWUNaY

The podcast episode provides a condensed summary of Daniel E. Saros book "Information Technology and Socialist Construction – The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism". It focuses espeically on the independent model for democratic economic planning that the author develops from scratch in Chapter 7 of the book. The book the podcast eposode is based on can be found in our library here. The second part of the interview can be found here.

Comment from our editors:

This is an exciting interview with Daniel E. Saros on the possibilities of democratic economic planning based on digital communication technology.

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Samuel Decker
Tags: alternative economic systems | economic planning | post-capitalism | social ecological transformation | technology
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