Market Socialism: The Impossible Socialism

The idea of combining some form of social equality with markets goes back to the very origins of socialist tradition and also underlies most of the proposals currently being presented as “alternatives” to the capitalist social order. However, taking as its axis the organic relationship between commodity circulation and capital, as revealed by Marx, it is possible to offer a critique of market socialism (choosing David Schweickart's version of Economic Democracy as a generic textual reference) to demonstrate its inconsistency as a project for social emancipation alternative to the capitalist mode of production. And this for reasons of: i) economy: due to market inefficiency in allocation, and its tendency toward social polarization; ii) politics: because markets prevent citizen self-government and block the free development of human capacities; and iii) ecology: the market is incompatible with a social metabolism that is sustainable with nature. The conclusion is that a market-based production structure is incompatible with the conscious, rational, and democratic regulation of the economy.

An Empirical Study on the Network Model and the Online Knowledge Production Structure

Mass production has attracted much attention as a new approach to knowledge production. The R software system is a typical product of mass production. For its unique architecture, the R software system accurately recorded the natural process of knowledge propagation and inheritance. Thus, this article established a dynamic complex network model based on the derivative relationship between R software packages, which reflects the evolution process of online knowledge production structure in R software system, and studied the process of knowledge propagation and inheritance via the dynamic complex network analysis method. These results show that the network size increases with time, reflecting the tendency of R software to accelerate the accumulation of knowledge. The network density and network cohesion decrease with the increase of scale, indicating that the knowledge structure of R software presents a trend of expansion. The unique extension structure of R software provides a rich research foundation for the propagation of knowledge; thus, the results can provide us a new perspective for knowledge discovery and technological innovation.

دور الإنفاق الأستثماري العام في تعزيز التحول الهيكلي للاقتصاد العراقي بعد عام 2003

This research aims to diagnose the reality of the contribution of public investment spending to the structural transformation in the Iraqi economy by using the descriptive analytical method. The weak relationship between public investment spending and structural transformation has been found as a result of weak investment allocations directed to the productive sectors that can contribute to correcting the imbalance in the production structure. On the basis of this, the research stressed the need to increase public investment spending in order to stimulate the work of the investment multiplier and accelerator, which would contribute to correcting the production structure and achieving structural transformation in the Iraqi economy

Mining and Minerals in South Africa

Although the mining value chain only accounted for around 13% of the GDP and 6% of employment in 2020, it remained a central link between the South African economy and international markets. As a result, it had an outsized impact on the production structure, income distribution, infrastructure and legal frameworks. After the transition to democracy in 1994, the value chain underwent significant changes, notably a shift away from coal into platinum, iron ore, coal and ferroalloys, and significant divestment by international mining companies. Still, deep-seated developmental challenges persisted, including limited mining-based industrialisation, the exercise of monopoly power within value chains, and deeply inequitable and oppressive payscales and work organisation. These structural weaknesses emerged clearly in the 2010s, as the end of the global metals prices boom (2002 to 2011) brought plummeting revenues, revealing a range of economic, workplace, and policy conflicts across the value chain.

STRATEGI KRITIK CERPEN “TELINGA” TERHADAP ORBA: MENINJAU STRUKTUR PRODUKSI DAN IDEOLOGI TEKS

ABSTRAK: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan strategi kritik cerpen “Telinga” karya Seno Gumira Ajidarma (SGA) terhadap rezim Orde Baru (Orba) Indonesia. Hal tersebut akan dijelaskan dengan cara meninjau struktur produksi dan ideologi teks cerpen “Telinga” karya SGA. Untuk menjelaskannya, penelitian ini menggunakan teori kritik sastra materialistis Terry Eagleton. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini ialah metode dialektika. Metode ini memungkinkan peneliti untuk menjelaskan ideologi teks sebagai produk pengolahan estetik atas struktur produksi pada masa Orba. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sebagai berikut. Pertama, cerpen “Telinga” sebagai kritik hadir dengan cara menerobos struktur produksi pada masa Orba yang selalu diatur oleh pemerintah. Struktur produksi pada masa Orba yang berkaitan dengan corak produksi umum didominasi oleh pemerintah. Segala bentuk produksi diatur sehingga muncul ideologi umum represif yang berada dalam naungan ideologi Pancasila. Hal tersebut memengaruhi corak produksi sastra yang dituntut untuk pro-pemerintah. Namun, ideologi kepengarangan SGA justru hadir sebagai bentuk resistensi kepada pemerintah sehingga ideologi estetik dalam cerpen “Telinga” berbentuk kontradiksi dengan ideologi umum pada masa Orba. Kedua, kritik cerpen “Telinga” diartikulasikan dengan ideologi teks yang hadir melalui simbol-simbol. Dalam manifestasinya, cerpen “Telinga” berhasil mengkritik Orba dengan cara menyampaikan fakta realitas tanpa harus digugat oleh pemerintah. Kritik tersebut pada gilirannya juga memanfaatkan narasi satire. Dengan demikian, cerpen “Telinga” sebagai kritik dinaturalisasikan melalui ruang estetik untuk mengungkap fakta yang dibungkam pada masa Orba.KATA KUNCI: Struktur produksi; estetik; ideologi teks; Orde Baru (Orba); Terry Eagleton “TELINGA” SHORT STORY CRITICISM STRATEGY TOWARDS THE ORBA: REVIEWING PRODUCTION STRUCTURE AND IDEOLOGY OF THE TEXT ABSTRACT: This research aims to explain the strategy of “Telinga” short story by Seno Gumira Ajidarma (SGA) towards the Indonesian New Order (Orba) regime. It will be explained by reviewing the production structure and ideology of the text of “Telinga” short story by SGA. This research uses Terry Eagleton’s literature’s materialistic criticism theory. The method used in this research is the dialectical method. This method allows the researcher to explain the ideology of the text as a product of aesthetic processing of the production structure during the Orba era. The results showed the following. First, “Telinga” short story as a criticism comes by breaking through the production structure during the Orba era which was always regulated by the government. The production structure during the Orba era related to the general mode of production was dominated by the government. All forms of production are regulated in order that a repressive general ideology emerges under the auspices of the Pancasila ideology. This affected the literary mode of production which was demanded to support the government. However, the SGA’s authorship ideology actually exists as a form of resistance againts the government in order that the aesthetic ideology in “Telinga” short story contradicts the general ideology during the Orba era. Second, “Telinga” short story criticism is articulated with the ideology of the text which is present through symbols. In its manifestation, “Telinga” short story successfully criticizes the Orba regime by delivering reality-based fact without any accusation by government. The critic on its turn also applies satire narracy. Therefore, “Telinga” short story as criticism naturalized through an aesthetic space to reveal silenced fact during the Orba era.KEYWORDS: Production structure; aesthetic; ideology of the text; New Order (Orba); Terry Eagleton

Analysis of Water Consumption in Fruit and Vegetable Processing Plants with the Use of Artificial Intelligence

Fruit and vegetable processing has a significant impact on the environment due to its consumption of a significant amount of water. Water consumption mainly depends on the type of production and the technology used. Water in fruit and vegetable processing plants is used as a raw material, an energy carrier, and in hydro transport, as well as for washing raw materials and maintaining production hygiene. The variety of technological operations carried out in the production process and the seasonality of production make it difficult to objectively assess the use of water in fruit and vegetable processing plants. Few available publications in this field provide numerical values of water unit consumption indices, with none entering into the cause-and-effect relationships of water use in plants in this industry. The aim of this study was to analyze the research to date and to verify the following research hypothesis: the structure of processing and the relationship between the weights of individual products have an impact on water consumption in fruit and vegetable processing plants. For this purpose, neural models of water consumption were developed for the largest agri-food processing plants in Poland that use similar technology. Water consumption was then optimized using genetic algorithms for the processing structure. The results confirmed the hypothesis that production structure has a significant impact on the rationalization of water consumption. The optimization results show that the production of concentrates, juices, and drinks has the greatest impact on water consumption. The lowest water consumption will be achieved when the production of concentrates is at a 2 to 1 ratio to the production of juices and drinks.

Problems of Modern Transformation of Statistics

The article is devoted to the problems of statistics transformation due to the appearance of new types of statistical observation which allows accumulating, processing and transfering big volumes of information at high speed. The modern stage of improvement in statistics is connected with the development of information technologies, the effectiveness of which determines the way many technological and methodological problems are solved. Their solution is based on the understanding that statistics is only able to perform its function by reflecting manageable economic phenomena and processes combining systemic, process, structural and functional approaches. The article describes the solution of the problem on the example of labor productivity in the production structure along with working out a system of indicators and using it in the analysis of the management system under consideration. Statistics currently is developing under the influence of digital and Bid Data technologies improvement. Being Internet technologies they are connected with the applications targeting at the formation of market of standardized services which can be used jointly by multiple consumers. This limits the possibility of using them in the basic information statistical processes, the function of which is to support making managerial decisions about particular unique management subjects that are developing under particular unique conditions. But at the same time disruptive digital technologies turn in the factor of the development of statistics as an activity primarily being implemented on the information platforms belonging to the management institutions. The research uses the methods of system and comparative analysis to consolidate modern concepts of economic system management, directions of development in statistics, development of digital technologies and their introduction in statistical processes.

Farm income and its taxation

Motivation: It is increasingly common to hear the opinion that farm income should be taxed with income tax, just like other types of economic activity. Currently, the level of taxation of farm income is low. As the economic power of the farm increases, the level of taxation of its income decreases. Over the years 2014–2019, no variation can be observed in the level of taxation of farm income. Certain simplified attempts to record economic events on farms, due to the fact that they receive all kinds of subsidies, are being gradually introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The time has come to carry out a reliable assessment of the income situation of farms. The calculation of income is important for making management decisions on the farm so as to optimise the production structure, costs, etc. Aim: The objective of the study is to assess the level of income among FADN farms in various economic classes, to assess the level of taxation of income of these farms, and to present the problems related to a potential change in the taxation of agricultural activities. The study aims to show the problems related to calculating income on farms and to present the advantages and disadvantages of the existing taxes paid by farmers. Results: The result of the study is a proposal regarding tax rates in agriculture. According to the author, in the case of taxation of farm income, in order to maintain its current level of taxation, the tax rate should be 1–2%. If farm income were to be taxed, the tax rate, which would not increase the current tax burden, should be 2–5%.