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Znet Article Raina: Parvenu Nationalism

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Badri Raina
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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...

Znet Article Raina: The Meaning of Modi

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Badri Raina
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[NOTE: This piece was written immediately after the carnage that took place in Gujrat in 2002. We thought it appropriate to run it on the 5th anniversary of the massacres.] After the true purposes of the Nazi party began to reveal themselves in H...

Znet Article Albert: Remembering Tomorrow Interview

Znet Article, February, 02 2007 Michael Albert
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(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Remembering Tomorrow, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Remembering Tomorrow is not organized in a linear historical flow, as are most memoirs. Instead, Remembering Tomorrow's main sec...

Znet Article Sandronsky: James Brown

Znet Article, December, 31 2006 Seth Sandronsky
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Music superstar James Brown's influence was widespread. Count me in as a longtime fan of his. Brown's recent passing marks the end of an era. What I wish to add to the many accolades and tributes to him is just this. His song "Say It Loud, I'm Bl...

Znet Article Raina: Sachar Committee Report on Indian Muslims

Znet Article, December, 15 2006 Badri Raina
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India’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk.  The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee” (set up on 9th March,2005) headed by former...

Znet Article Albert: Why Parecon?

Znet Article, September, 14 2006 Michael Albert
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Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Of course Robin and I worked hard on parecon and rel...

Znet Article Hawkins: Rebuilding the Labor Movement in the United States

Znet Article, September, 05 2006 Howie Hawkins
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Unions need to offer a vision of how a just society should be organized. We need to organize for real solutions like fair trade, national health insurance, labor law reform, internal union democratic reforms to re-engage the rank and file, and a m...

Znet Article Cohen: Notes on the Ecological Dimension

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Mitchel Cohen
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(A talk by Mitchel Cohen at the "Another World is Necessary" conference on July 24, 2006 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, sponsored by the Center for Global Justice.) There is a kind of environmentalist who argues that police clubs must be made...

Znet Article Raina: Vande Mataram

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Badri Raina
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Some two decades into acclaimed and dedicated service to King and country, Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England, was finally confronted with his patriot test by Henry the VIIIth.  He was ordered to intervene with the Pope in Rome for his co...

Znet Article Raina: Indian Muslims

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 Badri Raina
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My chief concern here is to understand the situation of muslims in India. But, to the extent that the issue is inevitably affected by the condition of muslims world-wide, it is relevant to take note of factors that impinge upon that condition even...

Znet Article Raina: Gujarat 2006— Same But Not the Same

Znet Article, August, 02 2006 Badri Raina
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It would be a grave miscalculation for the Indian State as well aswell-meaning secular and peace-loving Indians to be taken in by Narendra Modi’s seemingly conciliatory visit to the scene of the last round of violence  in Vadodra (in the m...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and France

Znet Article, July, 23 2006 Michael Albert
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An economy has to produce goods and sevices that we then enjoy both for survival and pleasure. It also has to facilitate our getting those outputs of economic activity, which is to say, consumption. And between production and consumption comes wha...

Znet Article Raina: Back to a Better Version of Reform

Znet Article, July, 07 2006 Badri Raina
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Although the custodians of ‘ruling ideas’ seek always to lend ‘universal’ weight to concepts that suit them, it remains a truism of common human experience that the same words across changing histories do not mean t...

Znet Article Christini: none

Znet Article, July, 01 2006 Tony Christini
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We hear a steady stream of progressives say that progressives need to "learn from the South" where they are having more success at social change -- Venezuela, in particular -- but much less frequently do we hear what exactly there is to learn; exc...

Znet Article Raina: India, Nepal, and Left Praxis

Znet Article, June, 24 2006 Badri Raina
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In an earlier piece in the same space  (“India and Nepal”,  Znet, june 10) suggestions were made with respect to the implications of the Nepalese revolutionary upsurge for the idea of the theocratic State. That upsurge also has an...

Znet Article Raina: India and Nepal

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Badri Raina
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Replicating the wishful follies of the eighteenth century Bourbon monarch, Louis XVI,  King Gyanendra Shah of Nepal  has finally been denuded of all his powers.  It hardly matters now what royal robes  he wears; the emperor will henceforth be effe...

Znet Article Wetzel: Unionism and Workers' Liberation

Znet Article, May, 31 2006 Tom Wetzel
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Unionism and Workers' Liberation

Znet Article Podur: Race, Culture, and Leftists

Znet Article, May, 21 2006 Justin Podur
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My presentation is motivated by what I believe is a weakness across the political spectrum: handling the interaction of different cultures and identities in accordance with principles of equality, solidarity, and liberty. My optimistic belief is t...

Znet Article Peters: Kinship Vision

Znet Article, May, 19 2006 Cynthia Peters
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This paper is being prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held...

Znet Article Shalom: A Political System for a Good Society

Znet Article, May, 19 2006 Stephen1 Shalom
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{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions gather activists from around the world to share...

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