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- Thursday, Aug 26, 2010
ZNet Article Paper presented as the basis for dialogue at the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center for Community Leadership, Detroit, MI., August 26th 2010. -
- Tuesday, Jul 13, 2010
ZMag Article An alternative to capitalism -
- Friday, Jun 18, 2010
ZNet Article An account of a project involving Venezuela and an outline of questions for President Hugo Chavez -
- Friday, May 21, 2010
ZNet Article On April 22, ZNet posted a lecture Robin Hahnel was invited to deliver on April 10, 2010 at a Conference celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Confederacion de Trabajadores, CNT, in Barcelona, Spain. The title of the Presentatio... -
- Thursday, Apr 22, 2010
ZNet Article A talk given for the Conference Celebrating the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Centro Nacional de Trabajadores (CNT) in Barcelona, Spain, April 10, 2010. -
- Saturday, Feb 27, 2010
Commentary I agree that markets for many important reasons must be abolished and replaced. The projects around a participatory society, including participatory economics, certainly rank among the more detailed proposals for a more just successor economy and ... -
- Sunday, Feb 21, 2010
ZNet Article NLP talks to Michael Albert, co-founder of Z Magazine, ZNet and South End Press, about complementary holism, Participatory Economics and an alternative to capitalism. -
- Monday, Jan 11, 2010
ZNet Article Michael Albert, one of the originators of Participatory Economics (along with Robin Hahnel), interviewed by parecon advocate Matt Grinder. -
- Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009
ZNet Article This is the Introduction to the Book, Remembering Tomorrow, a memoir by Michael Albert -
- Friday, Dec 25, 2009
Commentary This is part 2 of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel, to be posted Dec. 24-26, 2009. Part 1 was posted yesterday. Part 3 will be available tomorrow. ZNet Article Make no mistake about it, formal negotiations in Copenhagen ended in a train wreck that no spin doctor can put a good face on and was a huge setback for the prospects of averting climate change in an equitable way. -
- Thursday, Dec 24, 2009
Commentary Part 1 of a three part series exploring the Left and climate change to be run on ZNet Dec. 24-26, 2009 -
- Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009
ZNet Article While attention to class has ebbed and flowed among social movements for generations, class rule was always present and the recent economic crisis has forced it back into the spotlight. But what is class rule and why is it important? -
- Friday, Nov 06, 2009
Commentary A panel presentation given today, Friday November 6th, 2009 at the 7th international Rethinking Marxism conference, held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
Commentary In writing 'Black Flame: The revolutionary politics of anarchism and syndicalism', Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt set themselves an ambitious task of writing a history of anarchism. I use the word ambitious mainly because, as Guerin (1970... -
- Friday, Oct 23, 2009
ZNet Article Each Resoc participant has been asked to answer five questions in a succinct interview for the project. All the replies will appear within the Resoc site, starting soon, in the order they arrive. Substantial replies, however, may also appear as ZC... -
- Wednesday, Oct 07, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications -
- Monday, Oct 05, 2009
ZNet Article A critical (but hopefully constructive) review of Media Lens new book - Newspeak in the 21st Century. -
- Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009
ZNet Article A Reply to Michael Hardt's "Politics of the Common" -
- Saturday, Aug 01, 2009
ZNet Article Differences in how the Parecon institutions are received -
- Monday, Jul 27, 2009
ZNet Article History has witnessed many revolutions all over the world. There have been many different ways of how these revolutions came about. The differences between the French Revolution of 1789 and the German Revolution of 1989 are just two examples showi... -
- Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009
ZNet Article There are a number of Solidarity Economy and of Parecon people participating in Resoc. I wonder if we can try to determine the relation of these perspectives, and the possibility for, well, solidarity! I wrote an essay some time back that I would ... -
- Wednesday, Jul 15, 2009
ZNet Article Markets in everything creep not just into our lives, but into our thoughts. Most environmentalists worried about the climate crisis focus on winning a cap-and-trade system or at best a carbon tax. They prioritize pricing greenhouse gas emissions.... -
- Tuesday, Jul 14, 2009
ZNet Article Imagine twenty tentative claims about vision and strategy for a participatory society. -
- Monday, Jul 13, 2009
ZNet Article You could select any topic that subsumes anything that might be called "left activism" -- the environment, war and militarism, labor rights, energy, education, media, electoral politics, food and drink, banking and finance, just to name a few broa... ZNet Article We are in the middle of both economic and environmental crises. As we look for solutions, the two cannot be separated - matters of the economy are entwined with the environment and vice versa. Our profit-driven market economy ensures that only a t... -
- Sunday, Jul 12, 2009
ZNet Article Recently, I have been introduced to an organizational style for developing software called Agile Programming. I believe many of the principles from Agile Programming translate well to activism. Below, I lay out the case for why meta-thinking about... -
- Friday, Jun 26, 2009
Book Review Greg Wilpert's book is important: important not only as an account of developments in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez between 1999-2007, but as a “critical interrogation†of Chávez' “socialism of the 21st Century,†which should make it impo... -
- Thursday, Jun 25, 2009
ZNet Article Michel, I will confine my reply to points of disagreement, or confusion, for brevity, after addressing, again, one overarching issue that seems to inform your entire reaction. But even at that, I apologize that this last reply regarding parecon is... -
- Tuesday, Jun 23, 2009
ZNet Article Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has recently popularized the idea that we should re-imagine society on the basis of what he calls "21st Century Socialism." Unfortunately, while Chávez and his supporters provide a number of hints as to what thi... - All Newest Parecon
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- Friday, Jun 18, 2010
ZNet Article An account of a project involving Venezuela and an outline of questions for President Hugo Chavez -
- Friday, May 21, 2010
ZNet Article On April 22, ZNet posted a lecture Robin Hahnel was invited to deliver on April 10, 2010 at a Conference celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the Confederacion de Trabajadores, CNT, in Barcelona, Spain. The title of the Presentatio... -
- Thursday, Apr 22, 2010
ZNet Article A talk given for the Conference Celebrating the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Centro Nacional de Trabajadores (CNT) in Barcelona, Spain, April 10, 2010. -
- Saturday, Mar 13, 2010
Blog Post Third Draft of possible organizational poll -
- Saturday, Feb 27, 2010
Commentary I agree that markets for many important reasons must be abolished and replaced. The projects around a participatory society, including participatory economics, certainly rank among the more detailed proposals for a more just successor economy and ... -
- Sunday, Feb 21, 2010
ZNet Article NLP talks to Michael Albert, co-founder of Z Magazine, ZNet and South End Press, about complementary holism, Participatory Economics and an alternative to capitalism. -
- Saturday, Feb 20, 2010
Blog Post A query about possibly doing a poll...one big question... -
- Monday, Jan 11, 2010
ZNet Article Michael Albert, one of the originators of Participatory Economics (along with Robin Hahnel), interviewed by parecon advocate Matt Grinder. -
- Friday, Dec 25, 2009
Commentary This is part 2 of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel, to be posted Dec. 24-26, 2009. Part 1 was posted yesterday. Part 3 will be available tomorrow. -
- Thursday, Dec 24, 2009
Commentary Part 1 of a three part series exploring the Left and climate change to be run on ZNet Dec. 24-26, 2009 - All Featured ZNet
Parecon Books-
- Saturday, Aug 07, 2010
Book In this volume, Albert and Hahnel offer an assessment of previous theories such as orthodox Marxism, feminism, and nationalism. They propose a unique new perspective for developing an alternative socialist vision. Book Albert and Hahnel critically evaluate the post-capitalist experiences of the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, and present a relevant alternative to the US and other industrialized countries. Book Essays on Strategy and Vision Book After explaining why hierarchical production, inegalitarian consumption, central planning, and market allocations are incompatible with "classlessness," the authors present an alternative model of democratic workers' and consumers' councils operat... Book How do social and political theories work, and how do they relate to each other? In Thought Dreams, Michael Albert discusses these questions. It will help readers better understand progressive theories and begin to create their own theoretical per... Book A broad look at diverse sides of social life - proposing alternatives and strategy - economics, politics, kinship, culture, ecology, international relations, and more... Book A highly accessible and unorthodox approach to thinking about economics. It subverts the elitist and codified world of academic economics by empowering the reader with the tools needed to conceptualize an economy based on progressive and humane va... Book The Trajectory of Change charts a course for the growing, international movement against corporate globalization. Book Presents and Critiques Marxist Theory then moving on to address diverse other perspectives... Book A classic and very accessible work on particpatory economics and alternatives to the market. - All Parecon Books
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Parecon WritersParecon Blogs-
- Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010
Blog Post Responding to a "critique" of parecon... -
- Saturday, Jul 24, 2010
Blog Post A swedish PPS-project in progress.Planned launching date september 2010. -
- Saturday, Jul 17, 2010
Blog Post First steps towards a Project for a Participatory Society in Belgium. -
- Wednesday, Jun 30, 2010
Blog Post Replying to an Anarchist critic of parecon... -
- Tuesday, Jun 22, 2010
Blog Post Review of a must-read book for all people claiming to be on the left and interested in alternatives to organizing. -
- Saturday, May 29, 2010
Blog Post Cool animation argues for pareconish incentives. -
- Saturday, Mar 13, 2010
Blog Post Third Draft of possible organizational poll - All Parecon Blogs
Parecon Video
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- Thursday, Apr 09, 2009
Video The "Alternative Economy Cultures (alt.econ.cult) programme on April 3rd & 5th brings together leading international and Finnish thinkers, cultural practitioners and activists, to present alternative economic visions. -
- Saturday, Aug 02, 2008
Video Blue Stockings Bookstore, NYC... -
- Wednesday, Jul 30, 2008
Video Gathering at Blue Stockings Bookstore NYC. -
- Sunday, Apr 13, 2008
Video Overview of Parecon, the economy of a participatory society... -
- Thursday, Dec 20, 2007
Video Michael Albert on building social movements and getting Parecon (participatory economics). More info at parecon.org. Video clip from www.kanalb.de in Germany. - All Parecon Video
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