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- 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... -
- Monday, Jun 01, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications... -
- Saturday, May 30, 2009
ZNet Article The current economic crisis has dealt a powerful blow to Milton Friedman's socio-economic vision and the dogma, propounded by followers of the Chicago School movement - there is no alternative - that has helped maintain it. As a result people ever... -
- Friday, May 22, 2009
ZNet Article This talk was delivered today, Friday, May 29th at the B-Fest in Athens, Greece. The gathering is an international anti-authoritarian festival hosted by the Babylonia newspaper, at the University of Fine Arts in Athens, from May 27-31. The purpose... -
- Friday, May 15, 2009
ZNet Article Contribution to Reimagining Society: Participatory Planning -
- Tuesday, May 12, 2009
ZNet Article I continue to mainly wonder what you see as the deep benefits of peer production for people's options at work or more generally as well as for production results. That list is needed, it seems to me, so we can assess whether the benefits you see i... - All Newest Parecon
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- 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 -
- 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? -
- Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009
Blog Post Reactions to Chavez's call for a new International... -
- Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009
Blog Post Last weekend I attended the 7th International Rethinking Marxism Conference, November 5-8 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Yesterday, November 9th, marked the 20 year anniversary of East Germany's decision to allow its citizen's to visi... - All Featured ZNet
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- Friday, Mar 19, 2010
Forum Post Hi Oscar,Not sure why you have the impression that this organization - if it existed - wouldn't be doing the things you indicate - surely it would. Perhaps you missed the part of the description about broad action program - and the how the r... Forum Post In my opinion, the poll and the organization description are very thoughtful and well formed, though still there is something that I miss: - I think the people behind Parecon have a very healthy approach towards putting ideas into practice. For i... -
- Thursday, Mar 18, 2010
Forum Post Zahed, Hi.I think your ideas are very very sensible and plausible, and obviously motivated by the desire that any group which begins - succeeds - but I don't think it is time, yet, to do more than at most offer your ideas as you have because... Forum Post Mark, Hi,Probably right - I think I figured that since it was the third draft, and earlier ones said as much, it was unlikely many folks who hadn't seen the prior content but who did know abotu the other proposal would be seeing this. Probably an ... Forum Post Okay, very good, and certainly no harm done!! Forum Post I would join this kind of group easily, but I have no idea how the group would grow. Inspired By Michael Albert's ideas, I've been thinking about growing non-hierachical groups.We have many Znetter in the same city who have never met.There are eas... Forum Post This is what happens when someone stumbles into a discussion without proper orientation. And the site is well set up for me to gain that orientation, so there is no excuse for it. Yes, I came here with a lot of baggage, and yes I... - All Recent Parecon Comments
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- Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009
Blog Post Last weekend I attended the 7th International Rethinking Marxism Conference, November 5-8 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Yesterday, November 9th, marked the 20 year anniversary of East Germany's decision to allow its citizen's to visi... -
- Friday, Oct 23, 2009
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- Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
Blog Post Chris Spannos will be speaking on Life After Capitalism at Wayne State University in Detroit on the evening of Thursday, October 22. - All Parecon Blogs
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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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