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Znet Article Cronan jr: Economic Democracy and Environmental Justice

Znet Article, July, 13 2009 John Cronan jr
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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...

Znet Article Ngwane: Things Have To Change

Znet Article, July, 13 2009 Trevor Ngwane
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Everyday working class life is a life of pain. It is a life in which no ordinary person is free of oppression and exploitation. If you do not have a job, you are a victim. If you have a job, you are the victim of exploitation and alienation. That ...

Znet Article Hoodbhoy: Imperialism and Islamism: a View from the Left

Znet Article, July, 13 2009 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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It is both healthy and necessary for the Left to keep seeking new utopias and to re-imagine the outlines of a future classless society. But to pretend away the ugliness of the real world – or to think that all conflict today is class conflict â€...

Znet Article Keshet: Agile Activism

Znet Article, July, 12 2009 Daniel Keshet
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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...

Znet Article Street: Re-Imagining and Recovering Revolutionary Socialism

Znet Article, July, 12 2009 Paul Street
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Why re-imagine socialism? I can think of five reasons...

Znet Article Rai: Thinking Strategically: Bigger Cages For Stronger Movements

Znet Article, July, 10 2009 Milan Rai
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Teaching a course on strategy to a group of 12-year-olds was very helpful. Perhaps teaching any topic to 12-year-olds is helpful to a ‘teacher' trying to get to grips with what it is being taught. Among other things, I gradually realized that th...

Znet Article Glick: If You Want a Revolution, Start With a Clean Energy One

Znet Article, July, 10 2009 Ted Glick
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications

Znet Article Schmitt: What's a Socialist to Do?

Znet Article, July, 09 2009 Richard Schmitt
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Ehrenreich & Fletcher tell socialists to go and organize. “We have to build organizations, including explicitly socialist ones, that can mobilize this talent, develop leadership and advance local struggles.” Generations of eloquent and courage...

Znet Article Robert: The return of subsistence knowledges

Znet Article, July, 07 2009 Jean Robert
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For the great majority of men and women throughout history, to lead a subsistence life has therefore never represented an “underdeveloped” or shameful mode of living. Even in more specific “economic” terms, it has mainly consisted in produ...

Znet Article Hill: Fragments of an Anarchist Public Health: Developing Visions of a Healthy Society

Znet Article, July, 07 2009 Marcus Hill
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Taking note of intensifying anarchist social movements worldwide, the goal of this paper is to provide some vision through relating the objectives of these movements to discourse going on within the area of public health - specifically, taking int...

Znet Article Burchett: The Ten Principles Of Bandung

Znet Article, July, 06 2009 George Burchett
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In May this year I visited the Museum Of The Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia.

Znet Article Fresia: Artists Taking Steps Toward PARECON

Znet Article, July, 06 2009 Jerry Fresia
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Artists create not just a thing of value, we create the thing of value. And yet, we live on the margins and accept our status as “starving.” Part of the problem is that we also accept our situation as is, without thinking much about it. The ...

Znet Article Hardt: Politics of the Common

Znet Article, July, 06 2009 Michael Hardt

A central task for reimagining society today is to develop an alternative management of the common wealth we share. In this essay I want to explore two distinct but related domains of the common. On the one hand, the common refers to the earth a...

Znet Article Heller: Imagining the Impossible

Znet Article, July, 06 2009 Chaia Heller
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I've been teaching and engaging in activism on issues of feminism, ecology, food, and agriculture for well over twenty years. Once in a while, I run into a face I recognize from the ‘old days'. People hailing from the 70s to the 90s—times when...

Znet Article Krimerman: Democracy's Dilemma And/Or Its Dangerous Dream

Znet Article, July, 02 2009 Len Krimerman
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There is a deep and persistent dilemma at the core of what most of us understand as democracy. On one hand, democracy takes a unique and radical approach to "sovereignty", that is, the right to supreme or final authority within a community.

Znet Article Wilpert: What Might Be 21st Century Socialism?

Znet Article, June, 23 2009 Gregory Wilpert
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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...

Znet Article Gulli: Utopia: The barely visible and the practical market

Znet Article, June, 22 2009 Bruno Gulli
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications

Znet Article Houtart: Proposal For A Universal Declaration On The Common Well-Being Of Humanity

Znet Article, June, 22 2009 Francois Houtart
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Confronted as we are by a financial crisis which is affecting the world economy and which combines with a food, energy and climate crisis that is leading to a social and humanitarian catastrophe, various reactions are being expressed.

Znet Article Lipow: Growing a Better World

Znet Article, June, 22 2009 Gar Lipow
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"Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth." So begins "Prosperity Without Growth"[1], the report of the UK government's Sustainable Development Commission. Questioning growth has been the obsessive foc...

Znet Article Greeman: How to get from Here to There: A Modern 'Archimedes Hypothesis'

Znet Article, June, 21 2009 Richard Greeman
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By all appearances, capitalism, decadent since the First World War is rapidly descending into economic depression, social barbarism and ecological suicide. In 2009, slowly reforming the system - always a dubious proposition - seems less and less p...

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