S03E54 - Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation

Rabea Berfelde discusses socialisation, its history and current socialisation movements.

Future Histories LIVE.

This episode is part of the ‘Future Histories LIVE’ format. For this, individual episodes are recoded live – that is, in front of an audience – at irregular intervals. This episode was recorded on August 6th, during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland, titled “Economics as Resistance. Heterodox Strategies on Housing, Energy, and Agriculture against the New Right”.

Please support the Institute for Transformation and Economy Studies in making the Rethinking Economics Summer School happen, by donating here:

hhttps://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/people/rabea-berfelde/

the Socialization in Theory and Practice research project:

https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/projects/socialization-in-theory-and-practice/

the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland:

https://resuso.ch/

Berfelde, R., & Möller, P. (2025). (Re)-Imagining Housing as an Infrastructure for Social Reproduction. In J. Groos & C. Sorg (Eds.), Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction

Berfelde, R. et al. (2024). Für eine Linke mit Plan. Luxemburg. Gesellschaftsanalyse und Linke Praxis. 1/2024.

https://zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/fuer-eine-linke-mit-plan/

Berfelde, R. & Heeg, S. (2024). Struggling with and through Knowledge Production: The Campaign ‘Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co.’s’ Attempt at Housing Definancialisation in Berlin. Critical Housing Analysis 11 (1): 105-114.

https://www.housing-critical.com/home-page-1/struggling-with-and-through-knowledge-productio

Berfelde, R., & Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Von der Vergesellschaftung zur Planung und wieder zurück: Über alte und neue Debatten um Wirtschaftsplanung und Vergesellschaftung. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 54 (215), 177–193.

https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/2119

Berfelde, R., & Möller, P. (2023). Radikaldemokratische Planung der Wohnraumversorgung? Das Vergesellschaftungskonzept von »Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen«. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für Kritische Sozialwissenschaft, 53 (212), 561–577.

https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/2049

on the Bavarian Soviet/Council Republic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic

on the German revolution of 1918-19:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolution_of_1918%E2%80%931919

Backhaus, J., Chaloupek, G., & Frambach, H. A. (2019). The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization. Springer.

https://www.springerprofessional.de/the-first-socialization-debate-1918-and-early-efforts-towards-so/16761374

on Otto Neurath:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath

Chaloupek, G. (2007). Otto Neurath's Concepts of Socialization and