11 Theses on Socialisation

The economic and political mediation of seemingly private decisions is proving increasingly incapable to solve social and ecological problems. Socialisation – the abolition of property – aims to establish ways of production and consumption that do justice to the social character of what is going to be socialised. In these efforts, economic, democratic, social, ecological, and legal claims and logics intersect. The extension towards social, ecological, and political aspects transforms the understanding of what ‘economic’ means, when, for example, questions of sustainability with regard to social structures and natural resources or the democratic control of technologies gain immediate significance for economic activity. The Critical Theory Network opens a new debate on the concept, strategies, and politics of socialisation.