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Albert: Politics In Venezuela
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An extensive interview about the polity in Venezuela, held with Julio Chavez, Mayor of Carora and prominent activist in all dimensions of the Bolivarian Revolution, especially concerning the Communal Councils.
Albert: Venezuelan Legal System: An Interview with Fernando Ramón Vegas Torrealba
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert went to Venezuela in early September and interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian Revolution. This one is about the role of the law and legal system, held with Fernando Ramón Vegas Torrealba, justice of the Venezuelan Suprem...
Hahnel: What Is To Be Done?
Znet Article, September, 20 2008
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Early in the twentieth century most socialists thought that after capitalism was overthrown workers in different enterprises and consumers in different communities would plan their activities together with little difficulty. But if the history of ...
Albert: Gender In Venezuela
Znet Article, September, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In early September Michael Albert went to Venezuela and interviewed numerous people about the Bolivarian Revolution. Here is the first, about the role and situation of women, held with Nora Castañeda, head of the Women's Bank in Venezuela and prom...
Albert: Revolutionary Organization
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
At some point a revolution will transform the U.S. economy, polity, kinship, and culture - and similar revolutions will transform other countries too. Such a revolutionary process will include diverse movements and organizations working together f...
Chomsky: Humanitarian Imperialism
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Jean Bricmont’s concept “humanitarian imperialism” succinctly captures a dilemma that has faced Western leaders and the Western intellectual community since the collapse of the Soviet Union. From the origins of the Cold War, there was a reflexive ...
Halling: Participatory Law - A Law of No Gods, No Masters
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Matt Halling
Halling's ZSpace page
It is understandable that, despite the wealth of material about participatory society, no one has written at length of the legal vision suggested by this new society. Lawyers are not a sexy subject for many activists to talk about: they reside in ...
Albert: Talk Delivered to Venezuela Conference on Crisis of Capitalism
Znet Article, September, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert, along with Greg Wilpert, is attending a conference in Venezuela this weekend. He will be conducting a series of interviews there, with responsible people about economics, politics, kinship, race, ecology, and international relation...
Hayden: The Problem Is Empire
Znet Article, September, 03 2008
Tom Hayden
Hayden's ZSpace page
Let me tell you some of my story and lessons I have learned over these past five decades. I have always tried to improve my country, always trying from the places around me...
Albert: Which Way Venezuela?
Znet Article, July, 23 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is exciting and exemplary, yet few people know much about where Venezuela is headed. Misrepresentations abound. Data is limited and people interpret it in contrary ways. Information deficit plus skewed interpretat...
Szczepanczyk: The Montesi Maneuver: A Way To Think About Corporations, Markets, Participatory Economics, and the Environment
Znet Article, July, 05 2008
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
Corporations -- particularly those transnational corporations with limited liability and rights of personhood -- pose a great threat, perhaps the greatest threat, to the environment and to the future of this planet. Examples are legion: Exxon-Mobi...
Spannos: What is Real Utopia?
Znet Article, July, 04 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
UTOPIAS HAVE A LONG, mixed history in Left movements. Sometimes they have propelled our imagination toward what better worlds might look like. Other times they have trumpeted heaven on earth, a world for angels rather than mortals, a far fetched l...
Spannos: Real Utopia Interview
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The book is a collective effort to spell out vision and strategy for a feasible and desirable transformation of society’s defining institutions. It explores how to get there along with concrete examples and lessons taken from past and present Left...
Albert: The Action Faction
Znet Article, July, 02 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
On one trip across country, after graduating from MIT, I arrived in Seattle with my MIT friends Peter Bohmer and George Katsiaficas. There we met a group that called itself the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF). These guys had gone to Seattle in 1970...
Cronan jr: Class Barriers to Change: Capitalist Lackeys or Coordinator Interests?
Znet Article, June, 26 2008
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
A look at the class analysis used in Paul Kivel's, "Social Service or Social Change," making the case that it is flawed--which has ramifications on his overall analysis of the topic. And it also an example of a greater misunderstanding of class am...
Milstein: Hope in a Time of Elections:
Znet Article, June, 20 2008
Cindy Milstein
Milstein's ZSpace page
As libertarian leftists, we view presidential contests as egregious reaffirmations of the state, and thus challenge electoralism’s connection to statecraft but also hierarchy. Yet often the best we can muster is an anti-politics, where our organiz...
Albert: The Ringing Of Revolution
Znet Article, June, 17 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Another excerpt in the serialization of Parts One and Two of the memoir Remembering Tomorrow by Michael Albert, this time chapter 10 and 11, distributed in this 40th year since the New Left and May 68.
Majavu: Building African Cadres of Excellence: A study of the neo-colonial coordinator class
Commentary, June, 16 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
Times have changed. The colonial project in Africa is no longer carried out with a gun and a boot and a baton. Structural adjustment programmes inform the neo-colonial agenda; and that agenda requires that a new coordinator class among the native...
Trigona: Lucio, The Good Bandit: Reflections Of An Anarchist
Znet Article, June, 09 2008
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Lucio Urtubia could be described as a modern day Robin Hood, a man who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Lucio, a 76-year old Spanish anarchist and retired bricklayer carried out bank robberies, forgeries and endless actions against capital...
Albert: Chapter 6: Why Do It?
Znet Article, June, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Another excerpt in the serialization of Parts One and Two of the memoir Remembering Tomorrow by Michael Albert.
