Solveig Degen

🚨Exciting News! 🚨 We just launched our new blog “Fascism and Liberalism - Yesterday and Today” which will be published weekly on Thursdays starting with a great piece by Clara Mattei and Aditya Singh next week!

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I am speaking at a #KPÖ Vienna workshop on democratic economic planning on May 10th - Registration still open until Sunday!
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For the first time since WWII an extreme right party is #1 in the German polls. Anti-fascist economic policy is urgently needed.

Instead the new coalition agenda entails:
- cut profit tax
- end 8 hr workday
- open tap for defense, austerity for the rest
- weaken social security

Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students. Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.

The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.

No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

Vor einer Woche fuhr ein Neonazi in #Mannheim in eine Menschenmenge und ermordete zwei Menschen. Viele mehr wurden verletzt. Das Interesse der herrschenden Politik geht inzwischen gegen Null. Das Sicherheitsgefühl von Menschen ist egal, sobald die Täter weiße deutsche Neonazis sind.

It’s now official, in written words, the oligarchs want to exterminate the rest of us.

The recordings of our expert workshop on democratic economic planning #DEP from last November are now online! If you missed it, check them out below👇

Musk making 2 unmistakable Nazi salutes back-to-back, having the ADL and so many others cover for him, while German police arrests students in Munich for discussing university ties with Israel, and Palestinians search their destroyed neighborhoods for the remains of their families. Welcome to 2025.

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Join our webinar on Shaping Provisioning Systems for Eco-Social Transformation! I’ll introduce the topic, followed by Ian Gough on production corridors, Halliki Kreinin & Doris Fuchs on structural barriers, and @colleenschneider.bsky.social on monetary systems.

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Presentation "Banks in the Democratic Economic Planning", Solveig Degen & Walther Zeug A Presentation on "Banks in the Democratic Economic Planning Debate" from Solveig Degen & Walther Zeug, held at the Workshop "Banks and Post-Growth" from Cen...

On December 18th 2024, Solveig Degen and me held a presentation on "#Banks in the #DemocraticEconomicPlanning Debate" at the Workshop "Banks and #PostGrowth" from Center for Sustainable Economic and Corporate Policy (ZNWU). Thanks Janina Urban for inviting us!

Sharepic mit dem Text: "Was Austeritätspolitik bewirkt, ist weniger eine Stabilisierung der Wirtschaft, sondern vielmehr eine Zementierung der Klassenbeziehungen. - Clara Mattei; Professorin für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Direktorin des Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE) an der Universität von Tulsa, Oklahoma"

Austerität als Wegbereiter des #Faschismus? Historisch betrachtet ging es nie um die Eindämmung von Inflation oder staatliche Haushaltsdisziplin, sondern wir sehen eine #Austeritätspolitik mit antidemokratischer Stoßrichtung, so Clara Mattei. 👇
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My Brother Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Died Because He Fed Gaza’s Starving Citizens His killing by Israel sent a chilling message that no one is safe, including humanitarians who stand in the way of Gaza’s erasure.

@thenation.com published my op-ed about the killing of my brother Chef Mahmoud www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Thanks to all participants, to my co-organizers @mschock.bsky.social 🙌 & Andreas Novy, as well as to our cooperation partners @arbeiterkammer.bsky.social @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social, the ISSET Institute at WU Vienna, the EAEPE & the Forum Alltagsökonomie for having made this possible!(9/9)

We ended the workshop with a thought-provoking panel discussion!🔥 @cedricdurand.bsky.social @abenanav.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and Christoph Sorg highlighted key take-aways from the WS, e.g. the central role of socialising investment and democratising science for advancing #DEP! (8/9)

In Session IV we had super interesting discussions on alternative governmentality, planning ecologies and social metabolic planning by Jan Groos (@futurehistories.bsky.social) & Yousaf Nishat Botero, @waltherzeug.bsky.social @jakobheyer.bsky.social Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault & Mathieu Dufour (7/9)

In Session III we discussed social ecological economic foundations for #DEP, learnings form activist struggles for DEP ✊ and how democratic planning in a post-capitalist utopia based on commoning could look like. With: Clive Spash, Anitra Nelson, Stefan Meretz & @mschock.bsky.social #commons (6/9)

On Saturday morning we had another exciting public lecture by Attila Melegh! He discussed historical and current day examples of non-capitalist mixed economies. Certainly a field of study DEP research should engage more with! #Polanyi #DEP #HistoryofSocialism (5/9)

We ended the day on Friday with an excellent public lecture by @cedricdurand.bsky.social on “ecological planning and the problem of knowledge in the anthropocene”. Thanks again Cédric! Your insights on the role of socialising investment and ecological accounting for #DEP were very inspiring! (4/9)

Session II on socialising investment, planning science & technological innovation🤖, corporate capture of digital infrastructure and industrial commons for #DEP was a real highlight 🔥 thanks to : @abenanav.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @technolowicz.bsky.social & Dominique Arsenault (3/9)

In Session I speakers unpacked core principles of #DEP and discussed its role for urban and social metabolic planning, for transforming provisioning systems in the FE and its connection to #degrowth. Contributions by: Christoph Sorg, Philipp Dapprich, Sarah Ware & Jana Gebauer, and myself (2/9)

Excited to share a few highlights from our expert workshop on “Democratic Economic Planning” (DEP) in Vienna last weekend! Over 2 days, we explored how democratic economic planning can reshape our economy. Here is a short summary of what we discussed 🧵👇(1/9) #DemocraticPlanning #DEP