Future Histories· Staffel 3· Folge 39
S03E39 - Jasper Bernes on Workers' Councils, Labor Time Calculation and the Future of Revolution
Sonntag, 25. Mai 2025 · 1 h 32
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Shownotes
Jasper Bernes discusses worker self-organization, labor time accounting and the revolutionary potential of workers' councils.
Shownotes
Jasper’s personal website:
Jasper at UC Berkeley:
english.berkeley.edu/people/jasper-bernes
Commune Magazine:
Bernes, J. (2025). The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising. Verso Books.
versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revo…
Bernes, J. (2020). Planning and Anarchy. South Atlantic Quarterly, 119(1), 53–73.
jasperbernes.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/11…
on Worker’s councils:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_council
on Council communism:
libcom.org/article/council-communism-introduct…
on the Paris Commune:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune
on Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike:
rosalux.de/en/news/id/43964/rosa-luxemburg-and…
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. Verso Books.
versobooks.com/products/772-neither-vertical-n…
Find the quote “the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all” at the end of Chapter 2 of the Communist Manifesto:
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist…
Group of International Communists (1990) [German original 1930] Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution.
marxists.org/subject/left-wing/gik/1930/index.…
second, revised edition from 1935, published in English in 2020:
arbeitszeit.noblogs.org/files/2023/04/GIC-Fund…
on Jan Appel:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Appel
on Labor Time Calculation/Accounting:
arbeitszeit.noblogs.org/en-GB/basics
Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme:
marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha
on Communization:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communization
Noys, B. (Ed.). (2012). Communization and its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles. Minor Compositions.
files.libcom.org/files/Communization-and-its-D…
on Gilles Dauvé:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Dauv%C3%A9
on the law of Value in Marx:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_value
on Paul Mattick:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mattick
Roth, G. (2014). Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick. BRILL.
files.libcom.org/files/Gary%20Roth%20-%20Marxi…
Mattick’s introduction to the 1970 reprint of the German first edition of “Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution”:
leftcommunism.org/spip.php?article359
on the Communist Party of Germany, founded in 1919:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany
on Amadeo Bordiga:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_Bordiga
Bordiga on the distinction between the city and the countryside:
peopleandnature.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploa…
Raekstad, P. R., & Gradin, S. S. (2019). Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today. Polity.
politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=prefigura…
the Endnotes Journal:
on the German strand of the “Commons” debate and movement:
commons-institut.org/theorie/was-sind-commons
Gibson-Graham, J. K. (1993). Waiting for the Revolution, or How to Smash Capitalism while Working at Home in Your Spare Time. Rethinking Marxism, 6(2), 10–24.
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08935699308658…
Purnell, D. (2021). Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protest, and the Pursuit of Freedom. Verso.
versobooks.com/products/2894-becoming-abolitio…
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construc…
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
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