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Albert: Albert Interviewed for The Socialist Worker
Commentary, May, 11 2003
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
(1) (Judy Cox:) What are your fundamental criticisms of capitalism?
Spannos: Parecon Review
Znet Article, April, 09 2003
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
If not capitalism, what then? asks journalist and activist Albert as he proffers this dogged, humanist alternative to private enterprise. Let's admit, suggests Albert (a founder of Z Magazine and South End Press), that capitalism has its downsid...
Wetzel: Participatory Economics and the Self-emancipation of the Working Class
Znet Article, March, 31 2003
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
A slogan that has been popular among quite a few syndicalists, anarchists, and Marxists was Flora Tristan's saying from 1843:
Wetzel: Participatory Economics and the Self-emancipation of the Working Class
Znet Article, March, 31 2003
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
A slogan that has been popular among quite a few syndicalists, anarchists, and Marxists was Flora Tristan's saying from 1843: The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the workers themselves. This slogan assumes that it i...
Albert: Interview About Parecon
Znet Article, February, 17 2003
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Parecon: Life After Capitalism, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Parecon: Life After Capitalism is about an economic system called Participatory Economics that seeks to accomplish producti...
Albert: Interviewing Michael Albert
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert is interviewed for The Bookpress by Satya Mohanty and Lourdes Beneria, professors at Cornell and members of the Cornell Forum for Justice and Peace. Albert will visit Ithaca November 22nd and 23rd to participate in the Ithaca ...
Albert: ZNet Interviews Michael Albert about...
Znet Article, October, 14 2002
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Trajectory of Change, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Trajectory of Change is a collection of my essays about aspects of building a powerful, effective movement for social cha...
Albert: What Do We Want? How Do We Get It?
Znet Article, September, 16 2002
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
What Do We Want? How Do We Get It?
Albert: Grubacic Interviews Albert Regarding Parecon
Znet Article, August, 22 2002
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Grubacic Interviews Albert Regarding Parecon
Podur: A few more moves ahead
Commentary, May, 25 2001
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
There is too much at stake for social change to be a game. But if it were a game, the side that had the ability to think many moves ahead, anticipate its opponents moves, know what its goal was and move toward it relentlessly, would have huge adva...
Bonpane: The Death of the Dinosaur, the Saber Tooth Tiger, and Militarism
Commentary, September, 10 2000
BlasŽ Bonpane
Bonpane's ZSpace page
Take a look at the La Brea Tar Pits numerous millennia ago. The saber tooth tiger attempts to attack a wild horse. The tiger gets stuck in the tar. The most ferocious animals are generally on the endangered species list, the lions the tigers, the ...
Albert: Participatory Economic Program
Commentary, April, 16 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Participatory economics is a set of institutions for accomplishing production, consumption, and allocation while meeting peopleÕs needs and furthering their development; is a set of institutions designed to propel equity, solidarity, diversity, an...
Albert: Economics and the Rest Of Society
Commentary, April, 02 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
A Participatory Economy produces, consumes, and allocates to meet peopleÕs needs and develop their capacities. It also promotes equity, solidarity, diversity, and self-management. Its central features are workersÕ and consumersÕ councils, remunera...
Albert: A Program Seeking Participatory Allocation
Commentary, March, 26 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Participatory planning is the allocation component of participatory economics. Producers and consumers organized in councils cooperatively negotiate labor, resource, and output allocations. The procedure organizes economic choices and simultaneous...
Albert: Vision Matters
Commentary, March, 19 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
So far I have sent out an economic vision and strategy commentary each of the past eight Sundays. I assumed we would quickly agree that we don't have but that we do very much need a shared economic vision, and that to get one we need to collective...
Albert: Participatory Allocation
Commentary, March, 12 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An economy needs some procedure for coordinating different workers' activities with one another and with the desires of consumers. The procedure, called economic allocation, determines how much of each input and output is used or produced, and whe...
Albert: Self Management as a Goal
Commentary, February, 13 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
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?
Albert: Movement for a Participatory Economy: An Overview
Commentary, January, 23 2000
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
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...
