Z Books
Recent Z Books
Albert: Pol Econ of Parecon
Aug 07, 2010
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 operating in a decentralized, social planning procedure. They show how egalitarian consumption and job complexes in which all engage in conceptual as well as executionary labor can be efficient. They demonstrate the ability of their planning procedure to yield equitable and efficient outcomes even in the context of externalities and public goods and its power to stimulate rather than subvert participatory impulses.
Bookchin: Post Scarcity Anarchism
Aug 07, 2010
Considers the connections between ecological and revolutionary thought, presents arguments that the world had newly arrived at conditions of post-scarcity and technological efficiency that offer liberatory potentials for industrial and agricultural workers to institute self-management,
Albert: Thought Dreams
Aug 07, 2010
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 perspective, one that is consistent with their principles, experiences, and priorities.
Albert: Realizing Hope
Aug 07, 2010
A broad look at diverse sides of social life - proposing alternatives and strategy - economics, politics, kinship, culture, ecology, international relations, and more...
Albert: Thinking Forward
Aug 07, 2010
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 values. It challenges the idea — so prevalent in Western capitalism — that the best we can hope for is capitalism with a happy face. And it challenges us to imagine what could be: a society based on justice, solidarity, and vision.
Braverman: Labor and Monopoly Capital
Aug 07, 2010
This widely acclaimed work, first published in 1974, overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology and became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological inquiry, including the science of managerial control, the relationship of technological innovation to social class, and the eradication of skill from work under capitalism.
Albert: Trajectory of Change
Aug 07, 2010
The Trajectory of Change charts a course for the growing, international movement against corporate globalization.
Albert: Unorthodox Marxism
Aug 07, 2010
Presents and Critiques Marxist Theory then moving on to address diverse other perspectives...
Albert: Looking Forward
Aug 07, 2010
A classic and very accessible work on particpatory economics and alternatives to the market.
Rocker: Anarcho Syndicalism
Aug 07, 2010
An introduction to anarchist ideas, a history of the international workers movement and an outline of the strategies and tactics embraced at the time. A prolific writer and speaker,
Chomsky: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central America
Aug 06, 2010
Indigenous societies today face difficult choices: can they develop, modernize, and advance without endangering their sacred traditions and communal identity?
Bookchin: The Spanish Anarchists
Jul 20, 2010
This popular, well-researched book opens with the Italian Anarchist Fanelli's stirring visit to Spain in 1868 and traces the movement's checkered but steady growth for the next seventy years.
Administrator: Balthasar's Odyssey: A Novel
Jul 20, 2010
Balthasar's Odyssey: A Novel
Street: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power
Jul 15, 2010
A sequel to Streetâ??s Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics, this new book documents and assesses Obamaâ??s newly emergent record on domestic and foreign politics against his original agenda for change.
Wolff: Capitalism Hits the Fan
Jul 13, 2010
Economist Richard Wolff provides a diary like account of the development of the latest capitalist downturn.
Bateman: Why Doesn't Microfinance Work?
Jul 08, 2010
In this provocative and controversial analysis, Milford Bateman reveals that microfinance doesn't actually work. Using a multitude of case studies from across the globe he exposes why many of its most fundamental building blocks are largely myths.
Taibo: Calling All Heroes
Jul 01, 2010
Paco Ignacio Taibo II is well known for his political novels and his memoir, '68, about his experiences in the Mexican student-popular movement in 1968. In Calling All Heroes, he spins that personal history into a unique short novel whose main character tries to piece together what has happened following the movement's catastrophic defeat while simultaneously concocting an outlandish plot for retribution against the Mexican government.
Zibechi: Dispersing Power
Jul 01, 2010
This, Raúl Zibechi's first book translated into English, is an historical analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of community power instituted by that country's indigenous Aymara. Dispersing Power, like the movements it describes, explores new ways of doing politics beyond the state, gracefully mapping the "how" of revolution, offering valuable lessons to activists and new theoretical frameworks for understanding how social movements can and do operate independently of state-centered models for social change.
