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Blog Post Spannos: Real Utopia Videos

Blog Post, April, 12 2008 Chris Spannos
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Book panel at the Left Forum, March 2008.

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Gender

Znet Article, March, 30 2008 Michael Albert
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A problem with this discussion, like many others that we will undertake, is that there is as yet very little clarity about what revolutionized kinship relations will be like in a new society...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon & Education

Znet Article, March, 28 2008 Michael Albert
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One aspect of education is intrinsic and oriented to the individual. To think about education starting with the student, we examine the process of conveying information and skills to develog talents in students. We ask what is the best way to educ...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Art

Znet Article, March, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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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...

Blog Post Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society For The 21st Century

Blog Post, March, 01 2008 Chris Spannos
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After three years of organizing and editing, the book Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century (AK Press) will finally be released in May.

Blog Post Spannos: Reviewing Solidarity's Vision: The Self-Managed Society Pt. 2

Blog Post, February, 21 2008 Chris Spannos
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This is the second in a series of blogs reviewing the Solidarity groups 1972 pamphlet publication of Workers' Councils and the Economics of Self-Managed Society by Cornelius Castoriadis, first published in 1957 (Number 22 of the French journal Soc...

Commentary Spannos: Consciousness for Classlessness: A Necessity for the Class War

Commentary, January, 26 2008 Chris Spannos
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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...

Commentary Cronan jr: Building a Liberatory Labor Movement

Commentary, December, 27 2007 John Cronan jr
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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 ...

Commentary Majavu: Xenophobia and Society

Commentary, December, 17 2007 Mandisi Majavu
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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...

Commentary Spannos: Anarchy & Participatory Society

Commentary, November, 09 2007 Chris Spannos
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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...

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 Wetzel: Unionism and Workers' Liberation

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

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...

Znet Article Albert: Building A Pareconish Movement

Znet Article, May, 03 2006 Michael Albert
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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 g...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon Today

Znet Article, April, 27 2006 Michael Albert
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1. Where did parecon come from? What is its history? Participatory economics, or parecon, came mainly from the cumulative struggles of diverse populations trying to win liberation from capitalism. Parecon owes, in particular, to the anarchist a...

Znet Article Albert: Anti Capitalist Strategy

Znet Article, January, 26 2006 Michael Albert
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A viable and desirable strategy for transcending capitalism will certainly include leaving capitalism behind. Capitalism is despicable. It will also include, however, attaining something worthwhile in capitalism's place. What we win must be de...

Znet Article Wetzel: The Capitalist City or the Self-Managed City?

Znet Article, July, 20 2004 Tom Wetzel
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This essay is from the recently p...

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