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Price: Concluding Statement
Znet Article, October, 04 2008
Wayne Price
Price's ZSpace page
Much of our difference is that Michael Albert is a model-builder and I am not. This causes us to talk past each other, despite the wide range of things on which we do agree. Michael and other Pareconers keep on trying to interpret my comments as ...
Albert: On the death of capitalism
Znet Article, October, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Interview with Ceasefire Magazine...
Lanz: Interview On Venezuelan Workplaces with Carlos Lanz
Znet Article, October, 03 2008
Carlos Lanz
Lanz's ZSpace page
Carlos Lanz is an advisor to the Ministry of Education and former director of the Aluminum processing plant Alcasa, which was one of the first experiments in creating a socialist enterprise in Venezuela, in which the workers run one of the country...
Price: More on Decentralism, Communism, and Electoralism
Znet Article, October, 02 2008
Wayne Price
Price's ZSpace page
In his response, Michael asks further questions. To keep my further response manageable, I will focus on three issues: decentralization, libertarian communism, and anti-electoralism...
Albert: Rejoining Price’s Reply
Znet Article, October, 02 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
To avoid going in circles, I will try to be brief…except on the matter of self-sufficiency and scale, which seems to concern many people on the left, particularly anarchists and Greens.
Price: Responding to Michael Albert’s Response Regarding Possible Disagreements
Znet Article, September, 30 2008
Wayne Price
Price's ZSpace page
The first topic of mine which you focus on is that of decentralization. You reject my idea that “regions and even communities” should “try to produce as much as possible of what they need on a local level,” and write, “I am not sure why you think ...
Albert: Replying to Price’s Response
Znet Article, September, 30 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
You remain troubled that parecon doesn’t aim for self-sufficiency...
Price: Response on Parecon by a Revolutionary Anarchist
Znet Article, September, 29 2008
Wayne Price
Price's ZSpace page
On what do our two tendencies agree? Quite a lot. While supporting struggles for reforms, we agree that our goal should be a revolution which gets rid of capitalism and all forms of oppression (gender, national, race, sexual orientation, etc.) as ...
Albert: Responding to Revolutionary Class-Struggle Anarchism
Znet Article, September, 29 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Debate continued...
Price: Revolutionary Class-Struggle Anarchism
Znet Article, September, 27 2008
Wayne Price
Price's ZSpace page
Anarchism is the end of all forms of domination, hierarchy, and oppression. It opposes capitalism, white supremacy, male supremacy, homophobia, imperialism, militarism, environmental destruction, and so on. Anarchism is the most extreme form of d...
Albert: Parecon & Movement Building
Znet Article, September, 27 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Wanting parecon for the economy implies a commitment to justice consistent with wanting revolutionary transformation of other spheres of life as well. To overcome cynicism, guide practice, deepen support, avoid hypocrisy, and learn as we go, we ne...
Hahnel: What Is To Be Done?
Znet Article, September, 20 2008
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
Early in the twentieth century most socialists thought that after capitalism was overthrown workers in different enterprises and consumers in different communities would plan their activities together with little difficulty. But if the history of ...
Albert: Revolutionary Organization
Znet Article, September, 16 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
At some point a revolution will transform the U.S. economy, polity, kinship, and culture - and similar revolutions will transform other countries too. Such a revolutionary process will include diverse movements and organizations working together f...
Chomsky: Humanitarian Imperialism
Znet Article, September, 15 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Jean Bricmont’s concept “humanitarian imperialism” succinctly captures a dilemma that has faced Western leaders and the Western intellectual community since the collapse of the Soviet Union. From the origins of the Cold War, there was a reflexive ...
Halling: Participatory Law - A Law of No Gods, No Masters
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
Matt Halling
Halling's ZSpace page
It is understandable that, despite the wealth of material about participatory society, no one has written at length of the legal vision suggested by this new society. Lawyers are not a sexy subject for many activists to talk about: they reside in ...
Albert: Talk Delivered to Venezuela Conference on Crisis of Capitalism
Znet Article, September, 04 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert, along with Greg Wilpert, is attending a conference in Venezuela this weekend. He will be conducting a series of interviews there, with responsible people about economics, politics, kinship, race, ecology, and international relation...
Albert: Albert Conclusion
Znet Article, August, 27 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Our topic in this debate has been the relevance of Marxism for seeking social change today. My view has been that while Marxism of course contains many powerful and important insights, adhering to Marxism as a guiding ideology that we label oursel...
Albert: Albert Rejoins
Znet Article, August, 27 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Before getting into your points, you and I disagree so much about the texts you quote and about the historical events you have referenced that to clash on that just won't yield progress, I fear, though it may give us both carpel tunnel syndrome. Y...
Albert: Excerpt from the introduction to Looking Forward (sep 1990)
Znet Article, August, 27 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Following the fine and sober book by the Hungarians George Konrad and Ivan Szelenyi, The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), we can transcend the U.S. government, the Soviet government, the New York Times, and mos...
Albert: Marxism: Virtues & Problems
Znet Article, August, 27 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
How do we decide whether to employ Marxism? Do its concepts highlight what's most important and leave out what's peripheral? Do they reveal the roots of oppression? Do they conceive liberating relationships? Do they effectively inform activist int...
