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Commentary Albert: Self Management as a Goal

Commentary, February, 13 2000 Michael Albert
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How much say should each actor in an economy have over decisions in that economy? Why should we aim for self-management defined as decision-making input proportionate to the degree one is affected by outcomes?

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Just Rewards

Commentary, February, 06 2000 Michael Albert
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Suppose we agree that people ought to be paid only according to how hard they work and how onerous their work conditions are. To attain these Just Rewards we must reduce and ultimately eliminate reward for property, power, and output; reduce and f...

Commentary Albert: Just Rewards

Commentary, January, 30 2000 Michael Albert
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In a desirable economy what income does each actor get to enjoy? What is the basis for remuneration?

Commentary Albert: Movement for a Participatory Economy: An Overview

Commentary, January, 23 2000 Michael Albert
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Besides immediate objectives, great social movements need long-run goals for inspiration and guidance. The abolitionist movement to end slavery and the movement for the eight-hour day both in the nineteenth century, the movement for women's suffra...

Commentary Albert: Internet Commercialism?!

Commentary, January, 15 2000 Michael Albert
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There is an old economic saying that "there is no free lunch." To get something out of an economy you have to put something in. Contrary to rumors, this holds for the Internet as well as for factories. To provide internet content takes labor, tool...

Zmag Article Albert: A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism

Zmag Article, January, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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A Q & A on the WTO, IMF, World Bank, and Activism

Commentary Albert: Building Solidarity

Commentary, December, 24 1999 Michael Albert
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Social struggle will never be perfectly choreographed but we can at least have broad norms regarding movement process that benefit all involved constituencies.

Commentary Albert: Different Strokes for Different Folks!?

Commentary, December, 18 1999 Michael Albert
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How do we evaluate movement tactics and particularly property-damaging or truly aggressive or violent tactics?

Zmag Article Albert: On Trashing and Movement Building

Zmag Article, December, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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This is a response to a post-Seattle debate troubling many folks regarding movement tactics. As a preface, it goes without saying, I hope, that we all understand that as far as violence is concerned, the violent parties in Seattle were first and f...

Commentary Albert: The WTO and Mumia Abu Jamal

Commentary, October, 18 1999 Michael Albert
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The World Trade Organization treats working people in countries throughout the world as assets to manipulate in pursuit of private corporate profit. From Guatemala to South Africa and from Thailand to the South Bronx, this causes impoverishment, i...

Zmag Article Chomsky: East Timor Questions & Answers

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Noam Chomsky
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Stephen R. Shalom, Noam Chomsky, & Michael Albert This issue of Z was being prepared as the situation worsened in East Timor. The following Q&A is intended to give readers background information on the situation and U.S. interests in the area....

Zmag Article Albert: Mother Jones, Todd Gitlin, & Kosovo

Zmag Article, October, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert Many people were concerned during the Kosovo conflict that crimes against the Albanian Kosovars were so horrific that however painful it might be to undertake, NATO intervention was warranted. Such folks felt that genocide ...

Commentary Albert: Prison Policy

Commentary, August, 10 1999 Michael Albert
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About 25 years ago I was at a dinner party with a bunch of leftist economics faculty and grad students, and I posed a hypothetical question to engender some dinner debate. If you had only two choices, I asked, would you open all prison doors and l...

Commentary Albert: Pacifica, Pacifica!

Commentary, June, 23 1999 Michael Albert
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The current crisis at Pacifica was unleashed with recent firings of prominent and appreciated employees leading to irate listeners and employees demonstrating their opposition widely and militantly. Any progressive alternative institution has to u...

Zmag Article Albert: Lend Me Your Ear

Zmag Article, June, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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Lend Me Your Ear

Zmag Article Albert: The Kosovo/NATO Conflict

Zmag Article, May, 01 1999 Michael Albert
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The Kosovo/NATO Conflict

Commentary Albert: Some Thoughts About the Bombings

Commentary, March, 26 1999 Michael Albert
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Does it ring any bells for anyone else that bombing country A may not have anything to do with country A per se, at least in recent times? Once it begins, bombing almost never yields a sought outcome regarding the place bombed (save, of course, wh...

Zmag Article Albert: The Stickiness Problem

Zmag Article, January, 01 1998 Michael Albert
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Toward the end of last Summer I spoke at a National Green gathering about "movement building." My initial idea was to discuss the progressive and left community’s outreach problem. We try to reach potential allies in society a...

Zmag Article Albert: title("Society's Pliers")

Zmag Article, December, 01 1997 Michael Albert
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title("Society's Pliers")

Zmag Article Albert: Media & Democracy

Zmag Article, December, 01 1997 Michael Albert
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Michael Albert   The Second Media and Democracy Congress was held this past October 16–18. It was an auspicious affair, bringing together nearly 1,000 folks from all manner of media operations and projects arou...

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