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Albert: Worrying About Terror
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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I actually think there is some reason to worry that there will be a terrorist attack between now and the election. Not because the government says so, of course. They haven't got a clue. But because from the perspective of bin Laden and co., it ma...
Albert: Inquiries
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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Recently many people are asking why did the U.S. government ignore various indicators leading up to 9/11 that perhaps something horrible would happen if there weren't changes in U.S. policies. Okay…I suppose it isn't an entirely unreasonable quest...
Albert: Beyond Capitalism
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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I have been asked for a short essay for a book that will appear at the ESF, this October. I have to rush it...and here is a draft. Anyone who wants to send me any suggestions, please feel free. But the commenting system is down. Beyond Capitalis...
Albert: Soc Student…Last
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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> I can't help but wonder whether any system can survive if it is too complex for the general public to understand. Is this serous? Parecon has a few key institutions and concepts, which a junior high school student could easily understand. To ...
Albert: Soc student…Sixth
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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> In his model, Albert argues for balanced job complexes instead of a labor market. Balanced job complexes replace corporate division of labor – not labor markets. Hiring and also firing of workers is not a market exchange because the terms are ...
Albert: Soc Student…fifth
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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> 1. Ease of Communicating the Parecon Model to Others – Personally, I find that a major obstacle to many reforms is the inability to plainly summarize the proposed reform and the rationale for implementing it (i.e. as if one is organizing behind ...
Albert: Soc – Fourth Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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The fourth student likes the ideas that, First, “participatory consumers must weigh the benefits of consumption requests against the sacrifices required to produce them.” Second, “participatory consumers must distinguish reasonable consumption req...
Albert: Soc 292 - The Third Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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Hmmmmm…these student comments are a bit longer than I anticipated…also a bit less in touch with the actual characteristics of parecon…but I started so I guess I will continue, though a bit more summarily than I had hoped, given these attributes. ...
Albert: Soc 292 - The Second Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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The second student worries about parecon's method of allocation. > For the purposes of making decision about allocation, Albert advocates 'decentralized participatory planning' (p. 122), in which members of a parecon, in their respective capacit...
Albert: Soc 292: Parecon Comments
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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In perusing the internet I found a pdf of comments by students, I think, of a sociology course (292) that used parecon for a reading. I thought I might briefly react to its contents in a few blog posts. The first student, after indicating his bro...
Albert: The World and the US
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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Recently on a number of occasions I have told people asking about how parecon the book and of course the model was doing, that it was an odd situation In the U.S., I have replied, while there is a lot of progress being made, especially as compare...
Albert: Gloves Off
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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I guess I am all out of patience and running dry on civility as well. Is it unreasonable to want to know where the left stands regarding capitalism and “other worlds”? Are various movements, institutions, media outlets, and constituencies anti-ca...
Chomsky: An Independent Iraq
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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For what it's worth, polls in Iraq reveal very considerable and apparently growing support for withdrawal of the US occupying army, apart from the Kurdish regions. That doesn't mean withdrawal tomorrow. No one is talking about that, and it isn't...
Chomsky: Peak Oil Theory
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The basic theory is incontrovertible. The only questions have to do with timing and cost. ... The date can be pushed back much farther if more costly (or maybe some to-be-discovered improved) technology is used. As for the estimates of cost, by r...
Chomsky: Iran's Threat
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The sharp increase in focus on Iran's alleged threat (nuclear weapons, connections to terror, etc.) is very clear. ... The same has been true with regard to Syria (including last December's "Syria Accountability Act" passed almost unanimously in ...
Chomsky: Invading Cuba
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Cuba was officially regarded as a security threat to the US until 1998, and when the Pentagon decided that maybe the US could survive a Cuban assault, the Clinton administration insisted that the threat must be defined as "negligible," but still r...
Chomsky: The Wall and Israel's Aims
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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If the goal were security, Israel would have built the fence a few km inside its borders. It could then be a mile high, patrolled on both sides by the IDF, mined with nuclear weapons, utterly impenetrable. Perfect security. The problem would be ...
Chomsky: Classified Documents
Blog Post, July, 10 2004
Noam Chomsky
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The scheduled release of declassified documents in the official State Department history is 30 years. In practice it is a bit longer, about 35 years or so usually. Of course, not everything is declassified. Sometimes it turns out on independent ...
Albert: The Reagan Phenomena
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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What the hell? Reagan, one of the least popular presidents, one of the dumbest presidents, and one of the most morally vile preseidents in American history (which is saying a whole lot) is celebrated in death like no other president since Kennedy ...
Albert: Interview for Polish Outlet
Blog Post, June, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was recently interviewed for Polish publication about matters of media manipulation, etc. 1) Recently I've realised that very important thing in Poland is special kind of censorship. Its dangerous because most people are not aware of this. Befo...
