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Albert: Parecon and Strategy
Znet Article, April, 22 2008
Michael Albert
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The effort to win a new economy will obviously have a great many facets. In Moving Forward (AK Press) I discussed parecon related strategic issues in detail. A more recent book by Robin Hahnel, Economic Justice and Democracy, addresses parecon rel...
Albert: Parecon and Anarchism
Znet Article, April, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Like most social movements, anarchism is diverse. Most broadly, an anarchist seeks out and identifies structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination throughout life, and tries to challenge them, as conditions and the pursuit of justice permit....
Albert: Parecon and Marxism
Znet Article, April, 20 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
My discussions of anarchism and particularly of Marxism are contentious and controversial. It has seemed that my past presentations of this material have often failed to communicate my actual thoughts. To correct misinterpretation, here I argue po...
Albert: Parecon and Science/Technology
Znet Article, April, 19 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Like every label for a complex personal and social practice the word science is fuzzy at its edges making it hard for us to pin down what is and what isn’t science. Nonetheless, for our broad purposes, we can assert that science refers to an accum...
Spannos: New York City 2008 Anarchist Bookfair
Znet Article, April, 19 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Parecon and anarchism...
Albert: Parecon and Ecology
Znet Article, April, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Economies affect natural environments in diverse ways, of course. They add new contents to the environment, such as pollutants. They deplete contents from the environment, such as natural resources. They alter the arrangement and composition of at...
Majavu: The Coordinator Class in the Colony
Commentary, April, 16 2008
Mandisi Majavu
Majavu's ZSpace page
The Coordinator Class in the Colony
Albert: Real Utopia-Left Forum '08: Michael Albert 5/11
Video, April, 13 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Overview of Parecon, the economy of a participatory society...
Spannos: Real Utopia Videos
Blog Post, April, 12 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Book panel at the Left Forum, March 2008.
Albert: Parecon and Gender
Znet Article, March, 30 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
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...
Albert: Parecon & Education
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
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...
Albert: Parecon & Cultural Communities
Znet Article, March, 26 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
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...
Spannos: Real Utopia: Participatory Society For The 21st Century
Blog Post, March, 01 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
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.
Spannos: Reviewing Solidarity's Vision: The Self-Managed Society Pt. 2
Blog Post, February, 21 2008
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
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...
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.
