For this interview I spoke to Dr. Phillipp Dapprich, a post doc at the University of Potsdam in political theory who did his doctors thesis on socialist central planning studying under Paul Cockshott. He recently published a paper titled Tokens make the world go round: socialist tokens as an alternative to money.
During the interview we spoke about why socialists are interested in economic planning, his proposal for using non-exchanging socialist tokens to facilitate a socialist economy for consumer goods, and some potential technological implementations of it. We also discussed how Phillipp’s proposal differs from labour vouchers and why there would be no taxes under socialism.
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