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Znet Article Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics

Znet Article, July, 22 2009 Michael Albert
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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 ...

Znet Article Bunge: Integral Democracy

Znet Article, July, 22 2009 Mario Bunge
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The orthodox liberal recipe for enhancing the quality of life and managing the common good looks simple enough: Combine political democracy with free markets. In other words, political democracy would be the procedure for actualizing jointly two v...

Znet Article Krimerman: Solidarity Economy

Znet Article, July, 22 2009 Len Krimerman
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Back in the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher famously proclaimed her TINA - There is No Alternative doctrine. Two decades later this doctrine takes on a new and even grimmer meaning, in the midst of the catastrophic global failings of her privileged econo...

Znet Article Zibechi: Cochabamba

Znet Article, July, 21 2009 Raúl Zibechi
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Through the water war of April, 2000, the poor of the city and countryside of Cochabamba succeeded in expelling the multinational corporation which tried to charge them for this most basic common good. Between 2003 and 2005, the poor of the entire...

Znet Article Jensen: Life in a Dead Culture

Znet Article, July, 21 2009 Robert Jensen
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When we seek the truth, we try to make sense of a chaotic world. We struggle to achieve what clarity is possible. When we look honestly, we face the cruelty of that truth. But the crucible, the most important test of our capacity to face the truth...

Blog Post Albert: The Reimagining Society Project

Blog Post, July, 21 2009 Michael Albert
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Since this project is now very prominent on ZCom, and will be front and center for months to come, I thought it might be useful to explain where it came from, and why ZCom is hosting it, and what ZCom's hopes are.

Znet Article Wright: Taking the Social in Socialism Seriously

Znet Article, July, 21 2009 Erik olin Wright
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Both social democracy and socialism contain the word “social”. Generally it is invoked in a loose and ill-defined way. The suggestion is a political program committed to the broad welfare of society rather than the narrow interests of particul...

Znet Article Trigona: Workplace resistance and self-management

Znet Article, July, 21 2009 Marie Trigona
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Capitalism has taken a turn for the worse, spinning itself out of control into a ruinous downward spiral which many are characterizing as the first depression of this century. Under capitalism there are always winners and losers, even without a ...

Znet Article Bauwens: Peer to Peer Economies

Znet Article, July, 20 2009 Michel Bauwens
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Peer-to-peer social processes are bottom-up processes whereby agents in a distributed network can freely engage in common pursuits, without external coercion, i.e. ‘permissionlessly’ undertake actions and relations. This requires not just ‘d...

Znet Article Gapasin: Starting From the Beginning

Znet Article, July, 20 2009 Fernando Gapasin
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My vision for the future starts at the beginning. At the risk of misquoting lots of folks, in particular Gandhi and Ella Baker, this essay is about the organizing of people to create the world we would like to see or being and organizing the chan...

Znet Article Wetzel: What is Democratic Planning?

Znet Article, July, 19 2009 Tom Wetzel
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A reply to Michael Lowy on Ecosocialism

Znet Article Landau: Th Amazon 2009

Znet Article, July, 19 2009 Saul Landau
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From May 2000 to August 2005, Brazil lost more Amazon land to “development” than all of Greece. Since 1971, corporate ranchers and agribusiness cleared tens of thousands of acres for grazing, lumber and mining interests. During that period, B...

Znet Article Duran: Labor and Art

Znet Article, July, 19 2009 Jose-maria Duran
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After a morning bath, Dick, the man whose business is ‘ferrying and giving people casts about the water [the river Thames in London],’ offers the narrator of News from Nowhere, William Guest, to be his guide in the new world. Guest hesitates f...

Znet Article Ferguson: Labor, Love, Community and Democracy

Znet Article, July, 19 2009 Ann Ferguson
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To think about a better world, we need to theorize a bit about what is possible, given human nature, as well as what is attainable, given human history.

Znet Article Lowy: Ecosocialism

Znet Article, July, 19 2009 Michael Lowy
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The present economical and ecological crisis are part of a more general historical conjoncture : we are confronted with a crisis of the present model of civilization, the Western modern capitalist/industrial civilization, based on unlimited expans...

Znet Article Lipow: Re: Reducing CO2 Emissions

Znet Article, July, 18 2009 Gar Lipow
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We can reduce emissions by 95% or more in twenty years without shrinking GDP, though it might be desirable to do so. Even if we needed to reduce emisssions by 80% or more in ten years we could do it at a very small cost. We can deploy wind and sol...

Znet Article Marom: Revolutionary Communalism

Znet Article, July, 17 2009 Yotam Marom
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I live in an apartment in Brooklyn with five other people, functioning as a collective financially, emotionally, culturally, and in our work. We collectively run Without Walls, an educational non-profit that uses democratic educational methods to ...

Znet Article Bijoy: Beyond Resistance And Cooption

Znet Article, July, 17 2009 C.r. Bijoy
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It is not the ‘tragedy of the commons' that we are told of, but the ‘tragedy of enclosures' that are at the roots of scarcity, deprivation and unrest. Neoliberalism empowers transnational corporations, weakens governments and relegates c...

Znet Article Sassen: Pulling the Economy Down into Our Communities

Znet Article, July, 17 2009 Saskia Sassen
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This is an account that begins with the current condition - a brutal capitalism increasingly dominated by a financial logic that goes well beyond conventional understandings of capital accumulation. The effect is a massive gap between that which ...

Znet Article Spannos: Reimagining Social Services for a Participatory Society

Znet Article, July, 16 2009 Chris Spannos
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On the surface it may seem a remarkable coincidence that the origins and future of social services are both intimately intertwined with Anarchism. However, it is less a surprise when one considers that each is based on mutual aid and compassion.

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