Cyber-Physical Decentralized Planning for Communizing
- Article: Cyber-physical decentralized planning for communizing. By Pedro HJ Nardelli, Pedro E Gória Silva, et al. Competition & Change. Special Issue: Rethinking Economic Planning
URL = https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/10245294231213141
Abstract
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"This paper proposes a decentralized planning constructed as a cyber-physical system to jointly manage supply and demand, including aspects related to production and circulation, without the mediation of money. Our aim is to provide a concrete technical solution for a future society based on communizing and commons-based resource allocation as an attempt to move in-against-and-beyond the value-form, which is the social “force-field” that characterizes the capitalist mode of production.
This contribution is divided into three articulated parts:
(i) a review of the elementary forms that jointly determine the capitalist social organization,
(ii) a defense of the proposition that the money-form must be destroyed to enable a new mode of production based on communizing, and
(iii) a proposal of a cyber-physical implementation of a jointly decentralized production planning and resource allocation over large infrastructures that enable a multilevel polycentric governance as a variation of the Interactive Economic Planning and Optimized Selections (I-EPOS) algorithm when coordination is needed."
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"This article defends the acts of communizing as the basis of a new mode of production, where social coordination is enabled by some of the recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs), in many ways aligned with (Groos, 2021; Bernes, 2020; Sutterlütti and Meretz, 2023). Our focus will be on a specific decentralized planning method called Interactive Economic Planning and Optimized Selections (I-EPOS) developed by Pournaras et al. (2018); Pournaras (2020). ...
The rest of this paper is organized as follows.
- We first present the elementary social forms of capitalism as a purified scientific (ideal) object defined by a totalizing social force-field determined by the value-form, from where intrinsic vulnerabilities shall be found.
- Then, we present a new conceptualization of cyber-physical systems introduced by Nardelli (2022) that is helpful to both reject solutions that resemble capitalist forms and support the communizing-based political economy.
- As a step further, we present our vision of a fully demonetized future based on decentralized planning following polycentric governance for communizing, similar to the decentralized solution for energy systems first presented by Giotitsas et al. (2022); Nardelli et al. (2021)."