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Commentary Albert: Parecon as Anarcho Snake Pit: Scene Setting

Commentary, June, 23 2011 Michael Albert
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Vision irresponsibly expects working people to sacrifice time and energy they can apply to surviving the hostile present

Commentary Szczepanczyk: A Call for Solidarity Gaming

Commentary, February, 27 2010 Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I agree that markets for many important reasons must be abolished and replaced. The projects around a participatory society, including participatory economics, certainly rank among the more detailed proposals for a more just successor economy and ...

Commentary Hahnel: The Left & Climate Change 2/3: Turn Back From The Road To Nowhere

Commentary, December, 25 2009 Robin Hahnel
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This is part 2 of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel, to be posted Dec. 24-26, 2009. Part 1 was posted yesterday. Part 3 will be available tomorrow.

Commentary Hahnel: Has The Left Missed The Boat On Climate Change?

Commentary, December, 24 2009 Robin Hahnel
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Part 1 of a three part series exploring the Left and climate change to be run on ZNet Dec. 24-26, 2009

Commentary Spannos: Exploitation: A Common Sense Approach

Commentary, November, 06 2009 Chris Spannos
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A panel presentation given today, Friday November 6th, 2009 at the 7th international Rethinking Marxism conference, held at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Commentary Majavu: Reviewing Black Flame

Commentary, November, 04 2009 Mandisi Majavu
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In writing 'Black Flame: The revolutionary politics of anarchism and syndicalism', Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt set themselves an ambitious task of writing a history of anarchism. I use the word ambitious mainly because, as Guerin (1970...

Commentary Weisbrot: World Recession Forces Economic Re-thinking

Commentary, March, 07 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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A serious economic crisis can force some rethinking of economic and political dogma. The current crisis is serious for most of the world; the IMF is projecting world economic growth of just one half percent this year - the worst since World War II...

Commentary Spannos: Greek Uprising, Echoes of Castoriadis: 1968, Autonomy & the Self-Managed Society

Commentary, December, 31 2008 Chris Spannos
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Inspired by the recent Greek rebellion, I am reminded of the Late Greek/French theorist of Autonomy and Self-Management, Cornelius Castoriadis...

Commentary Spannos: Capitalism's Crisis: Elites Play with Class War

Commentary, December, 14 2008 Chris Spannos
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Capitalism's current crisis is not the same as the crisis called capitalism. The former was caused by elite efforts to free themselves from constraints on profit making, which not only worsened material conditions for millions of people, but jeopa...

Commentary Majavu: Building African Cadres of Excellence: A study of the neo-colonial coordinator class

Commentary, June, 16 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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Times have changed. The colonial project in Africa is no longer carried out with a gun and a boot and a baton. Structural adjustment programmes inform the neo-colonial agenda; and that agenda requires that a new coordinator class among the native...

Commentary Albert: Parecon and Aspirations

Commentary, May, 04 2008 Michael Albert
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Leftists throughout the world today, and in all past times, have sought what are actually conceptually simple outcomes: each person should be as free as all others and as able to enjoy the fruits of labor and the virtues of social engagement in an...

Commentary Majavu: The Coordinator Class in the Colony

Commentary, April, 16 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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The Coordinator Class in the Colony

Commentary Majavu: The Mis-education of the Coordinator Class

Commentary, March, 14 2008 Mandisi Majavu
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Chomsky (2004) points out that Harvard trains the people that rule the world, while MIT trains those who make it work. I cannot think of a more succinct way of describing the goals of an educational process that creates and maintains the coordinat...

Commentary Spannos: Consciousness for Classlessness: A Necessity for the Class War

Commentary, January, 26 2008 Chris Spannos
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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...

Commentary Cronan jr: Building a Liberatory Labor Movement

Commentary, December, 27 2007 John Cronan jr
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In the United States, we can see the roots of an emerging militant labor movement. Though in its infancy, rank-and-file initiatives are becoming more common as traditional Labor continues to fail us. A militant labor movement will be comprised of ...

Commentary Spannos: Anarchy & Participatory Society

Commentary, November, 09 2007 Chris Spannos
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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...

Commentary Majavu: Life After Colonialism

Commentary, September, 19 2007 Mandisi Majavu
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A shortened version of this paper was presented at the 30th Anniversary Commemorative International Biko Conference, which was held in Cape Town from 10 - 12 September 2007.

Commentary Spannos: People and Birds Have Wings

Commentary, May, 25 2007 Chris Spannos
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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

Commentary Albert: What, Actually, would it mean to win?

Commentary, November, 28 2006 Michael Albert
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Winning could mean a lot of things. It could mean that we won an end to a war, or to the IMF or World Bank. Or it could refer to winning higher wages, better work conditions, open information in a workplace, affirmative action for race or gender, ...

Commentary Albert: Solidarity and Participatory Economics Friends or Foes?

Commentary, September, 15 2006 Michael Albert
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In a recent article appearing on ZNet, Ethan Miller argues passionately and effectively on behalf of a movement that has developed in Latin America and to an extent also in Europe, called Òsolidarity economics.Ó What is this movement about? And wh...

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