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Raina: Commemorating T.K.Ramachandran
Znet Article, July, 30 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
Teekay, who was professor of English at Calicut university in Kerala, was more importantly one of the relentless critics of stultifying orthodoxy, including, most of all, with respect to India's Left parties and politics. Besides being erudite in...
Tanzer: Reducing CO2 Emissions
Znet Article, July, 29 2009
Michael Tanzer
Tanzer's ZSpace page
In the 19th century Marx eschewed “utopia socialist†visions of an ideal society, arguing essentially that we could not know what it will look like until after the revolution which would make it possible. But, in the 21st century, due to the e...
Snow: Conscious Being Alliance
Znet Article, July, 29 2009
Keith harmon Snow
Snow's ZSpace page
When we talk about “re-imagining society†it seems we need to first articulate the boundaries of such a project to mean re-imagining western society. I have a fantasy which, translated into action, might be synonymous with this. I call it a Co...
Purkayastha: The Need for a New Socialist Vision
Znet Article, July, 29 2009
Prabir Purkayastha
Purkayastha's ZSpace page
Globally, the left has some common problems. It would be a partial view if we believe that the left scenario in any country is largely driven by its internal dynamics. In the age of global media and instant communication, the politics of the world...
Pappe: Disarm Israel
Znet Article, July, 28 2009
Ilan Pappe
Pappe's ZSpace page
henever the possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state is mentioned by Israeli politicians, they take for granted that their interlocutors understand that the future state would have to be demilitarized and disarmed, if an Israel...
Raptis: The Problem of Transportation
Znet Article, July, 28 2009
Nikos Raptis
Raptis's ZSpace page
An interesting social test, easily performed by anybody, is the following: simply ask friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and even strangers what is their opinion about our life in 2009. Is it full of problems or is it a rather satisfactory and eve...
Martinez: A Moral Movement
Znet Article, July, 26 2009
Raoul Martinez
Martinez's ZSpace page
In January of this year, horrified by the events unfolding in Gaza, and in response to an article defending Israel's actions written by a Messianic Jew and posted on the Facebook profile of a friend of mine, I wrote three articles
Osbudun: Culture and Revolution
Znet Article, July, 26 2009
Sibel Osbudun
Osbudun's ZSpace page
It is significant to see that the conception of culture as a web of meanings/symbols related with but apart from “social structureâ€, with its specific and autonomous dynamics, formulated by Clifford Geertz but reverberating the “division of ...
Christini: Declaration of Emancipation
Znet Article, July, 25 2009
Tony Christini
Christini's ZSpace page
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for people to dissolve the political and legal bonds which have connected them with others, and to assume among the powers of the earth,
Krysmanski: Elites and power
Znet Article, July, 24 2009
Hans juergen Krysmanski
Krysmanski's ZSpace page
As far as the actual use of elite power is concerned, the United States have produced some weighty export models or franchises: First the configuration of the Power Elite as C. Wright Mills saw it.
Majavu: "How do we organise our movements?': First reply to Ngwane's opening essay
Znet Article, July, 24 2009
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
Trevor Ngwane is right, for most people life under the capitalist system is frustrating, bleak, short, brutal and nasty. I agree with Ngwane that the point is not merely to be philosophical about the social ills facing us in the 21st century, but ...
Iles: Insulating against isolation
Znet Article, July, 24 2009
Caragh Iles
Iles's ZSpace page
For us to realize a society which is beautiful requires real change on the macro level as well as within the tiny interactions between ourselves. This essay aims to explore some of the strategies which can help make the micro overlaps of our lives...
Panitch: Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination
Znet Article, July, 23 2009
Leo Panitch
Panitch's ZSpace page
Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications
Martinez: Creating Education
Znet Article, July, 23 2009
Raoul Martinez
Martinez's ZSpace page
A formal education system reveals much about the predominant values and goals of a society. The content and structure of the curriculum, school day, and examinations betray a vision of the kind of individual the system wishes to cultivate—reward...
Mestrum: Fight Global Income Inequality
Znet Article, July, 23 2009
Francine Mestrum
Mestrum's ZSpace page
Since the international organisations put poverty on the political agenda in the 1990s, little has been heard about inequality. This is quite amazing, since it was the income gap between rich and poor countries that gave rise to the development pr...
Cradden: Workplace Democracy and Markets?
Znet Article, July, 23 2009
Conor Cradden
Cradden's ZSpace page
Many on the left are intuitively suspicious of positive forms of workplace democracy, in which workers have the right and duty to participate in decision-making about what will be done rather than the negative right merely to refuse to accept some...
Nembhardt: Coops in New Orleans
Znet Article, July, 23 2009
Jessica gordon Nembhardt
Nembhardt's ZSpace page
On June 20-22, 2008, members of worker cooperatives and their supporters from around the country visited New Orleans to hold our 3rd conference, “Democracy at Work,†at Loyola University.
Ortellado: From the shell of the old
Znet Article, July, 23 2009
Pablo Ortellado
Ortellado's ZSpace page
You will find below some general thoughts on our movement and its lack of strategy and vision. It is a way of looking at things perhaps too distinctively South American and from a former 'antiglobalization' activist point of view. Its form is some...
Dangl: Common Ground
Znet Article, July, 23 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
As the global economic crisis expands, a rapidly increasing number of people are seeking ways to combat unemployment, marginalization, corruption, repression and other problems. Such challenges have faced millions of Latin Americans for decades, a...
Wetzel: Anarchism, Class Struggle and Political Organization
Znet Article, July, 22 2009
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
This is an exploration of the perspectives of pro-organizational anarchists who have a class struggle perspective in the USA.
