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Wetzel: Vision for Housing
Znet Article, August, 19 2009
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
Social housing today and under self-managed socialism
Spannos: Re: Politics of the Common
Znet Article, August, 19 2009
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
A Reply to Michael Hardt's "Politics of the Common"
D'arcy: Environmentalism as if Winning Mattered
Znet Article, August, 12 2009
Steve D'arcy
D'arcy's ZSpace page
Proposes a strategy for the environmental movement, which actually aims at winning, based on the self-organization of grassroots activism and community-based counter-capitalist alternatives.
Suggett: Post-Sexist Society
Znet Article, August, 05 2009
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
This essay is an effort to look beyond the struggle to resist, critique, and understand sexist oppression, and articulate a revolutionary vision for specifically how we wish to structure a new society that nurtures and sustains healthy gender r...
Bohmer: Venezuela: Socialism for the 21st Century
Znet Article, August, 03 2009
Peter Bohmer
Bohmer's ZSpace page
For much of the 19th and 20th century, socialism was the hope of millions of working people around the globe, including the United States in the early part of the 20th century. This was the period of the growth of the Socialist Party and the Indus...
Spannos: The Coming Insurrection or the Arrival of Suicidal Nonsense?
Znet Article, July, 23 2009
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
A review of the book "The Coming Insurrection" authored by the anonymous “Invisible Committeeâ€...
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
Brecher: Lessons from Hard Times Past
Znet Article, July, 22 2009
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
We’re all struggling with how to think -- and what to do -- in the face of the “great recession.†An initial progressive response was to advocate better regulation; then Keynesian economic stimulus; now nationalization; perhaps in the future...
Trigona: Workplace resistance and self-management
Znet Article, July, 21 2009
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
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 ...
Spannos: Reimagining Social Services for a Participatory Society
Znet Article, July, 16 2009
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
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.
Shalom: Parpolity and Indirect Elections
Znet Article, July, 16 2009
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
What sorts of decision-making institutions and practices would be appropriate for a good society?
Jensen: Getting radicalized, slow and painful
Commentary, July, 16 2009
Robert Jensen
Jensen's ZSpace page
My transition to political radicalism -- going to the root of problems, recognizing that dramatic and fundamental change in the way society is organized is necessary if there is to be a decent human future -- involved a lot of pain, in two differe...
Podur: Polyculturalism and Self-determination
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
The present essay reviews in summary form the key ideas for "cultural liberation" and then discusses the consequences of these ideas for the concept of self-determination, specifically national self-determination, in our world and in a good society.
Torrealba: The Role of the Revolutionary Lawyer
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Fernando vegas Torrealba
Torrealba's ZSpace page
At a recent talk one of the participants in a lecture about the Venezuelan Justice System asked if it was necessary to be a lawyer to act on behalf of justice in any inter personal conflict.
Fitz: We Can Produce Less and Consume More
Znet Article, July, 15 2009
Don Fitz
Fitz's ZSpace page
A major gulf between environmental and social justice activists is “stuff.†Environmentalists (or at least serious ones) say “less.†Social justice organizers have the habit of saying “more.â€
Peters: Imagining Intimacy, Family, and Sex in a Better World
Znet Article, July, 14 2009
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Being active in the anti-war movement, supporting eviction blockades in my city, working with youth who are surviving oppressive schools and violence on the streets, I often wonder how I can justify taking the time to imagine what sex, family, gen...
Albert: Imagine and then Act
Znet Article, July, 14 2009
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Imagine twenty tentative claims about vision and strategy for a participatory society.
Hoodbhoy: Imperialism and Islamism: a View from the Left
Znet Article, July, 13 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
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€...
Street: Re-Imagining and Recovering Revolutionary Socialism
Znet Article, July, 12 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Why re-imagine socialism? I can think of five reasons...
Suggett: Venezuela’s Homemakers Union: An Interview with Founder and Coordinator Lizardi Prada
Znet Article, July, 12 2009
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
In this interview Lizardi Prada gives insight into the fight for women's rights in the Venezuelan context. Prada speaks about the union's creation and day-to-day functioning, it's agenda for homemakers' rights, it's relationship to the Catholic Ch...
