ParEcon: In Practice
This page features materials focusing on current and future attempts to implement parecon. Information on workplaces putting parecon into practice can be found below.
Interviewing
Andrej Grubacic: Parecon Balkans
Parecon as a
vision relevant to the Balkans...
Interviewing Ezekiel Adamovsky: Parecon in Argentina
Interest in and relevance of parecon to events in Argentina.
ParEcon
in Theory and Practice
by Paul Burrows
Burrows draws on his experience working in a parecon-inspired workplace
to discuss putting parecon into practice and the theory behind it.
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The
City
by Tom Wetzel
Discussion of self-management and “building the new society
in the shell of the old.”.
Empowering
for Participation Through Work
by Adele Oliveri
Presentation given at the Life After Capitalism conference in Porto
Allegre, Brazil, 2003.
Movement
for a Participatory Economy (Old ZNet Subsite, coming soon)
by Michael Albert
12-part commentary series outlining a strategic program aimed at
winning gains towards a participatory economy.
Creating
Alternative Institutions
by Paul Burrows
A motivational essay on implementing parecon in our present lives.
ParEcon, Anarchy and Politics
by Brian Dominick
An exploration of what role, if any, government might play in establishing
and maintaining a participatory economy.
A Few More Moves Ahead
by Justin Podur
Essay on parecon, globalization and strategy.
Can
We Be Friends for Now?
by Robin Hahnel
Hahnel explores questions of unity, strategy and goals between
market socialists and advocates of parecon.
A number of workplaces self consciously apply the lessons of the parecon vision, seeking to implement and refine these through practical experience. Below are a few we are aware of.
South
End Press
Over
twenty-five years old, South End Press
utilizes balanced job complexes and approaches its editorial and other
publishing related decisions as much in accord with parecon values
and aims as conditions permit.
Mondragón
Bookstore & Coffeehouse
“A central
organizing principle of the [Mondragón]
collective is the notion of a job complex. A job complex is simply
a grouping of jobs and job types that strikes a balance between creative
and empowering types of work on the one hand, and more rote and menial
tasks on the other.”
G7 Welcoming Committee Records
Producers and distributors
of music “by and for people working for radical social change.”
The G7 Welcoming Committee collective
seeks to create a “humane and ethical workplace” through
participatory economic principles.
Arbeiter Ring Publishing
A collectively-run
publishing house in Winnipeg, Canada, Arbeiter
Ring uses participatory economic structuring “so that
all members have comparable responsibilities and are equally able
to participate in decision making.”
Z
Magazine
A monthly periodical
aiming “to assist activist efforts to attain a better future,”
Z Magazine has been a long-time supporter
of the parecon vision, in print as well as in practice.
ZNet
Home of the ParEcon
Project, ZNet features a wide
range of material on social change and vision. The staff at ZNet
strive to bring parecon values into their work and their workplace.
The NewStandard -- Shut down after 4 years, was is a hard hitting news source structured on the parecon model. Ready history here.
The Vancouver Parecon Collective does parecon advocacay through workshops, talks, organizing, activism, etc.
Koumbit is an Open Source parecon IT collective.
ParIT is another Open Source parecon IT collective.
The Underground Cafe in Fredericton, N.B.
CAPES -- Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society, doing advocacy and activism.
