{"title":"Value Is Sense-Less: Socialism, Kincentric Community, and the Gift of Philial Labor","authors":"Howard Engelskirchen","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.314","url":null,"abstract":"American Indian scholar, activist, and elder Vine Deloria, Jr. asked why Western peoples have such a negative view of the physical world. The instrumentalism of market relationality, from the emergence of coinage to the mature development of capital, suggests an answer. Looking beyond market relationality means understanding the social belonging of the individual as a premise of social life, a view Marx and Deloria appear to share. Socialists can look to indigenous thought for insight into refashioning community and labor in the perspective of communal belonging. The term “kincentric” extends our understanding of community in the spirit of the Lakota phrase, Mitakuye Oyasin, “we are all related”; “philial labor” is introduced to characterize labor animated by the principle of “from each according to ability, to each according to need.”","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124861707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment","authors":"","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.291","url":null,"abstract":"Three models of democratic economic planning — Devine and Adaman's negotiated coordination, Albert and Hahnel's participatory economics, and Cockshott and Cottrell's computerized central planning — have important implications for the wider perspective of ecological economics. When the models are reviewed from the standpoint of the complexity and biophysical interdependence inherent in ecological systems, they are shown to contain a number of problematic areas, revealed in the way they tackle ecological challenges. A potential way to resolve these problems points toward a new framework for understanding democratic economic planning. A merger of the different models and insights can lead to new institutions that would be better adapted to confronting current environmental issues.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128589655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Beyond Capitalism: Human Development and Protagonistic Planned Socialism","authors":"Al Campbell","doi":"10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.182","url":null,"abstract":"Major transformations of existing social orders require a broad belief: it is possible to build a viable alternative that addresses the major problems of the existing society. Social discussions involving a multitude of “mid-level concrete” models, or “previsions,” of such a viable alternative combine with the existing social discontent to create such social beliefs. The broad concept of “socialism” designates an organization of society and its production that does not involve some group of people living off their appropriation of part of the production of the rest of society. This paper presents some of the elements of a prefigurative conceptualization called Protagonistic Planned Socialism, which belongs to the Democratic Planned Socialism family of models. Its central elements are protagonistic collective self-determination of the operation of all the institutions of society by its members, consciously socially planned social production, and social labor processes that support and promote human development.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128790778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}