TY - BOOK A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World BT - Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany. T3 - Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series N2 - This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.  This book draws on more than 260 life history interviews and uncovers complex and contradictory experiences and transnational encounters. What emerges is a series of dualities that exist side by side in the memories of the former migrants: the state and the individual, work and consumption, integration and exclusion, loss and gain, and the past in the past and the past in the present and future. By uncovering these dualities, the book explores the lives of African migrants moving between the Third and Second worlds.  Devoted to the memories of worker-trainees, this transnational study comes at a time when historians are uncovering the many varied, complicated, and important connections within the global socialist world. KW - Open access KW - Third World KW - Second World KW - East Germany KW - Angola KW - Mozambique KW - Socialism KW - Labor Migration Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-031-06775-4 SN - 978-3-031-06778-5 SN - 978-3-031-06776-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1 SN - 2634-6273 SN - 2634-6281 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World BT - Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany T3 - Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series N2 - This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy. This book draws on more than 260 life history interviews and uncovers complex and contradictory experiences and transnational encounters. What emerges is a series of dualities that exist side by side in the memories of the former migrants: the state and the individual, work and consumption, integration and exclusion, loss and gain, and the past in the past and the past in the present and future. By uncovering these dualities, the book explores the lives of African migrants moving between the Third and Second worlds. Devoted to the memories of worker-trainees, this transnational study comes at a time when historians are uncovering the many varied, complicated, and important connections within the global socialist world. KW - Open access KW - Third World KW - Second World KW - East Germany KW - Angola KW - Mozambique KW - Socialism KW - Labor Migration Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-031-06778-5 SN - 978-3-031-06776-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1 SN - 2634-6273 SN - 2634-6281 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dapprich, Jan Philipp T1 - Tokens make the world go round BT - socialist tokens as an alternative to money JF - Review of Evolutionary Political Economy N2 - The paper argues that non-circulating tokens should be used as an alternative to money in a socialist economy. These tokens would be used to distribute consumer products out of socialised production to individual consumers. Like modern fiat money, these tokens are a kind of IOU. But unlike money, these tokens are not intended to facilitate the private exchange of commodities. Marx’s proposal to eventually abolish a token-based lower phase of communism in favour of a distinct higher phase is rejected because the ‘needs principle’ of the higher phase can be sufficiently realised within the token system. It is further shown that the prices of items should not be tied to the socially necessary labour time needed to produce them. Instead, prices should be regulated towards market clearing rates. KW - Money KW - Labour tokens KW - Socialism KW - Communism KW - Marx Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-022-00091-6 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -