Originally published at: https://www.indep.network/new-video-on-the-failure-of-historical-socialism/
Simon Sutterlütti has recently published a video analysing the failure of historical socialism. His fundamental critique is that it failed because it was still based on wage-labor and good were not distributed based on need. He concludes by making a case for a model tha avoids this mistake, called “Commonism” (for a short breakdown, see…
He wrote an article on this topic (unfortunately only in German): Das notwendige Ende der (Lohn-)Arbeit: Warum in einer effizienten, feministischen, ökologischen und demokratischen Planwirtschaft Arbeit freiwillig sein muss | PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft