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Albert: Answering a Comment
Blog Post, June, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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In general, I cannot pledge I will relate to all comments, even all questions, posted to the blogs. There is only so much time available. However.... One of the comments I found said I "seem to start with a basic split between Producers and Cons...
Albert: Present and Future Education
Znet Article, May, 18 2004
Michael Albert
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Thinking about education involves two broad frames of reference that in turn generate two approaches of...
Albert: Tortured Minds
Znet Article, May, 17 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Doesn’t sufficient evidence of deceit and destruction now exist for everyone to see it? Can the average American – much less the average citizen of England given their far better media -- be unaware of the vile nature of our govern...
Albert: Tortured Minds
Blog Post, May, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Doesn't sufficient evidence of deceit and destruction now exist for everyone to see it? Can the average American – much less the average citizen of England given their far better media -- be unaware of the vile nature of our government's pursuits,...
Albert: New pages comparing Capitalism and Parecon
Blog Post, May, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I am busy creating a "site" within ZNet and the Parecon site that is about comparing capitalism and participatory economics. It means to be succinct, aesthetically appealing, and provocative to further investigation. I could use help. As...
Albert: Q/A More Personally...
Blog Post, May, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I recently put a Q/A on the site and in the mail about the Parecon paperback edition, the recent mailings re parecon, etc. I thought I would answer the same questions here, a bit less formally -- a bit more personally -- in accord with blog expect...
Albert: Q/A on Parecon
Znet Article, May, 02 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
(1) Why have you sent messages about your...
Albert: Parecon?
Znet Article, April, 26 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: I have heard that there's been a lot of interest around the world in your new book, Parecon: Life After Capitalism, about a new economic system to replace capitalism. Can you tell me a little about what languages it's been translated i...
Albert: Unilateral “Negotiations†and Collective Punishment in Falluja
Commentary, April, 26 2004
Michael Albert
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The current “negotiations†in which the U.S. is engaged with the mujahedeen in Falluja boil down to this: the mujahedeen are to relinquish their “heavy weaponry†(ie, turn in their rocket propelled grenade launchers...
Albert: Left Academics
Blog Post, April, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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This weekend I had the unusual and rather mixed pleasure of speaking at an academic gathering. I actually thought it was going to be my usual type of audience -- students, activists, interested folks, etc. But instead, much to my surprise, it was ...
Albert: My Shoes...and Dylan
Blog Post, April, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Bob Dylan meant and means a lot to me -- so you can perhaps imagine my mood on seeing him advertising Victoria's Secret. I don't know which is sadder. That he did it. Or that reports indicate there is a huge sales bump as a result. In any event, I...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert, Last
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: In the book Parecon, you make no mention, that I can find anyway, of remuneration for the work of "caring" in the home – child raising, caring for the elderly, etc. This is a big issue with feminists: how do you address it? Albert: I ...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 11
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: Why don't you call yourself a socialist? It seems to me Parecon is well within the socialist tradition. Are you uncomfortable with being associated with that tradition? Is the socialist tradition about fighting against domination and ...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 10
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: You say your notion of parecon was influenced by your experiences with real "alternative" organizations like South End Press. Can you tell us something about these experiences and how they shaped your thinking? Parecon emerged concept...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 9
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: Singer also asked, what do you do when changed conditions, say a natural disaster, require instant decision-making? How do you answer this question? Albert: The question about responding to changes in people's preferences or in materi...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 8
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: OK, let's forget about the slackers v. the nerds and approach the time issue in a more socially serious way. On a panel you organized at the 2003 World Social Forum, a former mayor of Porto Alegre described a real-life experiment in so...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 7
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: That response raises all kinds of questions and sets off some alarm bells in my mind. To start with one of them, which may seem trivial, but is actually very central to our differing visions of a utopian arrangement: When you say "let'...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 6
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: Have you ever tried to calculate the human labor costs of all the planning involved in parecon? Or maybe I should say "time" not dollar "costs." Yes, in the various books the issue of time allotment is certainly addressed. And the dis...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 5
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: Before proceeding to other matters, my big reason for wanting some things to remain marketized is that it would reduce the burden of planning. As you know, some have complained that parecon condemns us to endless meetings, so why not l...
