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Albert: Parecon and Polity
Znet Article, April, 04 2008
Michael Albert
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Current times make an argument that contemporary political structures are decrepit and redundant. Every day hammers home the realization. My own country, the U.S., arguably has one of the most democratic political systems now operating.
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...
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...
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...
Shalom: ParPolity: Political Vision for a Good Society
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
Why should we be interested in thinking about what the political system of a good society might look like?
Podur: Life After Racism?
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
Talk prepared for Life After Capitalism Conference at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, January 2003.
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...
Shalom: Parpolity Interview
Audio, November, 24 2007
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
The Vancouver Parecon Collective talks with Steve Shalom...
Spannos: Anarchy & Participatory Society
Commentary, November, 09 2007
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
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...
Spannos: People and Birds Have Wings
Commentary, May, 25 2007
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Blackbird singing in the dead of night, Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, You were only waiting for this moment to arise. -- "Blackbird," The Beatles
Spannos: Radical Theory for a Participatory Society
Znet Article, March, 17 2007
Chris Spannos
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[A panel talk given at the Left Forum, March 9-11 2007, NYC. The panel, "Radical Visions f...
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...
Hahnel: A Participatory Peace
Znet Article, July, 07 2006
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
A Participatory Peace
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...
Shalom: A Political System for a Good Society
Znet Article, May, 19 2006
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
{ 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...
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...
Albert: Parecon Today
Znet Article, April, 27 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
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...
Albert: Realizing Hope
Znet Article, February, 05 2006
Michael Albert
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1. Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Margartet Thatcher and every bully with a bomb shouts "TINA: There is No Alternative." Realizing Hope shouts b...
Albert: Introduction to Realizing Hope
Znet Article, February, 01 2006
Michael Albert
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The stupendously influential and celebrated British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote, “[Capitalism] is not a success. It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous - and it doesn't deliver the goods. In ...
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...
