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Albert: Parecon & Cultural Communities
Znet Article, March, 26 2008
Michael Albert
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Humans tend to create diverse communities bound by shared cultures that differ from one another in their artistic, linguistic, and spiritual allegiances and preferences. The problem of cultural communities is not this diversity per se, but that cu...
Albert: Parecon and Art
Znet Article, March, 25 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
One could easily anticipate that people who own factories and have great wealth would have a negative initial--and perhaps long term--reaction to the classlessness of participatory economics...
Majavu: The Mis-education of the Coordinator Class
Commentary, March, 14 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
Chomsky (2004) points out that Harvard trains the people that rule the world, while MIT trains those who make it work. I cannot think of a more succinct way of describing the goals of an educational process that creates and maintains the coordinat...
Albert: Alternative Publishing And Its Problems
Znet Article, February, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Interview about the role of publishing in social change...
Cronan jr: Participatory Economics As An Alternative
Znet Article, January, 29 2008
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
Margaret Thatcher is credited for coining the phrase, “there is no alternative”, or TINA for short, referring to her assertion that there is no alternative to neoliberalism—meaning that economic activity is better left to the dictates of unrestric...
Spannos: Consciousness for Classlessness: A Necessity for the Class War
Commentary, January, 26 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Analysts and pundits alike all have common understanding of the following words for explaining and remedying the current state of the U.S. economy: "recession," "inflation," "housing crisis," "economic stimulus package," "rate cuts," and "injectio...
Cronan jr: Building a Liberatory Labor Movement
Commentary, December, 27 2007
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
In the United States, we can see the roots of an emerging militant labor movement. Though in its infancy, rank-and-file initiatives are becoming more common as traditional Labor continues to fail us. A militant labor movement will be comprised of ...
Burrows: Participatory Economics in Theory & Practice
Znet Article, December, 22 2007
Paul Burrows
Burrows's ZSpace page
A discussion of the theory and practice of participatory economics, via personal reflections on Winnipeg's Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House collective.
Majavu: Xenophobia and Society
Commentary, December, 17 2007
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
Various research studies conclude that South Africans, black and white, are xenophobic. In 1997, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) identified xenophobia "as a major source of concern to human rights and democracy in the country." T...
Adamovsky: Autonomous Politics and its Problems
Znet Article, December, 11 2007
Ezequiel Adamovsky
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications.
Spannos: Anarchy & Participatory Society
Commentary, November, 09 2007
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
The title of this panel is "Real Utopia: Paths to a Participatory Society," and is inspired by a book I am editing for AK Press (April, 2008). However, a conference like RAT presents challenges for how to approach the topic of vision for a partici...
Albert: Pat Devine on Parecon
Znet Article, August, 28 2007
Michael Albert
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I was happy to see a review of Parecon: Life After Capitalism in the journal "Historical Materialism" (Issue 15, 2007). The author, Pat Devine, agrees on the importance of economic vision per se. He is also quite familiar with the model called par...
Raina: The Unacceptable Excesses of Irreligion
Znet Article, August, 15 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The Unacceptable Excesses of Irreligion
Albert: SDS Convention Report
Znet Article, August, 09 2007
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The last weekend in July the new SDS (http://www.newsds.org) held its second national convention in Detroit Michigan. R...
Raina: Indian State on Trial
Znet Article, August, 07 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
This story has been told before, but can never be told enough. On the 6th of December, 1992, a majority right-wing Hindutva putsch overcame the majesty of the Indian State. With the full and open collaboration of the then BJP government in Utta...
Albert: Parecon as a New Path for the Balkans?
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The following interview was prepared for ZMag Balkans, a new print magazine, produced by "Freedom Fight collective" f...
Prashad: Letter to a Young American Hindu
Znet Article, May, 22 2007
Vijay Prashad
Prashad's ZSpace page
Dear Friend, Like you, I was raised in a mixed family. My parents' families came to Bengal from Punjab, and from Burma. One side leans towards Hinduism; the other to Sikhism. The city, the metro, provided its own cultural mooring, and in secular ...
Raina: Mullah Modi
Znet Article, May, 14 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
If the just concluded elections in Uttar Pradesh have been phenomenally significant on account of the acknowledgement of Dalit leadership in a state that has traditionally been the high-seat of Brahminism in North India, a collateral consequence h...
Podur: Global Warming Suspicions and Confusions
Znet Article, May, 11 2007
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
In recent years, a number of important contributions have influenced the growing debate on global warming. Paul Baer and Tom Athanasiou's book, Dead Heat, from a few years ago, was excellent. Noam Chomsky's latest book, Failed States, mentions glo...
Raina: Parvenu Nationalism
Znet Article, March, 27 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
I recall that some two decades ago Frederic Jameson noted how literary/creative productions from the “third world†tend to become “national allegories.†And I also recall some noted Indian intellectuals taking umb...
