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Albert: A Program Seeking Participatory Allocation
Commentary, March, 26 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Participatory planning is the allocation component of participatory economics. Producers and consumers organized in councils cooperatively negotiate labor, resource, and output allocations. The procedure organizes economic choices and simultaneous...
Albert: Vision Matters
Commentary, March, 19 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
So far I have sent out an economic vision and strategy commentary each of the past eight Sundays. I assumed we would quickly agree that we don't have but that we do very much need a shared economic vision, and that to get one we need to collective...
Albert: Participatory Allocation
Commentary, March, 12 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An economy needs some procedure for coordinating different workers' activities with one another and with the desires of consumers. The procedure, called economic allocation, determines how much of each input and output is used or produced, and whe...
Albert: Self Management as a Goal
Commentary, February, 13 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
How much say should each actor in an economy have over decisions in that economy? Why should we aim for self-management defined as decision-making input proportionate to the degree one is affected by outcomes?
Smith: Politics in Russia
Zmag Article, February, 01 2000
Jim Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
Boris Kagarlitsky is a Moscow-based writer, academic, and democratic socialist political activist. He was a leader of the Party of Labor, which was outlawed by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the 1993 “presidential coup” that res...
Albert: Movement for a Participatory Economy: An Overview
Commentary, January, 23 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Besides immediate objectives, great social movements need long-run goals for inspiration and guidance. The abolitionist movement to end slavery and the movement for the eight-hour day both in the nineteenth century, the movement for women's suffra...
Albert: A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism
Zmag Article, January, 01 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism
Hahnel: Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
Zmag Article, November, 01 1999
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Going To Greet The WTO In Seattle
Albert: Lend Me Your Ear
Zmag Article, June, 01 1999
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Lend Me Your Ear
Walker: The Care & Feeding of Community Radio
Zmag Article, April, 01 1999
Jesse Walker
Walker's ZSpace page
The Care & Feeding of Community Radio
Barsamian: The Future of History, Part I
Zmag Article, March, 01 1999
David Barsamian
Barsamian's ZSpace page
The Future of History, Part I
Dominick: Reinventing Antipoverty
Znet Article, January, 01 1999
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
Toronto's OCAP uses direct action to get results.
Carter: Citizen Wayne Kramer Does The Work
Zmag Article, November, 01 1998
Sandy Carter
Carter's ZSpace page
During the late 1960s, Detroit’s legendary MC5 played loud, raging rock and roll laced with bold, incendiary rants against the established order. Although far too abrasive for mainstream success, the band’s frenzied en...
Ehrenreich: Transcendence, Hope, & Ecstasy
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich Perhaps the best kept political secret of our time is that politics, as a democratic undertaking, can be not only “fun,” in the entertaining sense, but profoundly uplifting, even ecstatic. My ...
Barsamian: Navigating the Media
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
David Barsamian
Barsamian's ZSpace page
Ben Bagdikian is a respected critic of the media. He is winner of almost every top prize in American journalism, including the Pulitzer. His career as a reporter and editor spans more than 50 years. He is former Dean of the Graduate Schoo...
Duncan: Microbroadcasting
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
Kate Duncan
Duncan's ZSpace page
The movement for low-power community radio was relatively low-key until Stephen Dunifer founded Free Radio Berkeley with the intent not just to operate a small radio station, but to go to court in its defense. While the case lin...
Crotty: The Korean Struggle
Zmag Article, July, 01 1998
James Crotty
Crotty's ZSpace page
& Gary Dymski Just a few months after getting a clean bill of economic health from the OECD in mid 1997, South Korea’s economy plunged into a foreign exchange crisis. By December the Korean government had signed a loan agreeme...
Sargent: One Minute You're Changing Diapers, The Next Minute You're Committing Civil Disobedience
Zmag Article, January, 01 1998
Lydia Sargent
Sargent's ZSpace page
For our tenth birthday, Z will begin an ongoing series of articles called "Being Left." Activists will talk personally about what made them political, what keeps them going, and their hopes for the f...
Albert: The Stickiness Problem
Zmag Article, January, 01 1998
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Toward the end of last Summer I spoke at a National Green gathering about "movement building." My initial idea was to discuss the progressive and left community’s outreach problem. We try to reach potential allies in society a...
Albert: title("Society's Pliers")
Zmag Article, December, 01 1997
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
title("Society's Pliers")
