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Albert: Parecon and Crime
Znet Article, April, 05 2008
Michael Albert
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It is often said that how a society treats those it punishes graphically displays how civilized and humane that society is. If we look at how criminals are treated we see a portrait of a society’s moral soul.
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
Albert's ZSpace page
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 & Cultural Communities
Znet Article, March, 26 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Humans tend to create diverse communities bound by shared cultures that differ from one another in their artistic, linguistic, and spiritual allegiances and preferences. The problem of cultural communities is not this diversity per se, but that cu...
Albert: Parecon and Art
Znet Article, March, 25 2008
Michael Albert
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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...
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...
Burrows: "Work After Capitalism"
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Paul Burrows
Burrows's ZSpace page
I assume people already know the nature of the problems we face, and that something needs to be done to change society and the world, to alter the basic structures of power and inequality that have become so dominant, and so obscene. I'm not going...
Wetzel: Opening Comments for Debate with Socialist Perspective: Representing Parecon
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Tom Wetzel
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When Marx wrote up a draft of the Principles of the International Workers Association in the 1860s, he adapted a slogan of Flora Tristan, from 1843: "The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the workers themselves."
Albert: Participatory Economics
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
First off, like all of you I despise capitalism. I don’t want an economy in which Bill Gates has as much wealth as the population of Norway. I don’t want homeless people living under bridges and CEOs having huge mansions. I don’t want people fleec...
Cronan jr: Participatory Economics As An Alternative
Znet Article, January, 29 2008
John Cronan jr
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Margaret Thatcher is credited for coining the phrase, “there is no alternative”, or TINA for short, referring to her assertion that there is no alternative to neoliberalism—meaning that economic activity is better left to the dictates of unrestric...
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...
Cronan jr: Building a Liberatory Labor Movement
Commentary, December, 27 2007
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
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 ...
Albert: Istanbul Talk for Istanbul METU Alumni Association
Znet Article, December, 24 2007
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
What is the population of Turkey? 70 million? The population of US where I come from is roughly 300 million. How many people do we need on our side to create a new Turkish society? How many people do we need on our side in US to create a new US so...
Burrows: Creating Alternative Institutions
Znet Article, December, 23 2007
Paul Burrows
Burrows's ZSpace page
A brief forum post on building parecon-inspired institutions today.
Burrows: Is there an alternative to capitalism?
Znet Article, December, 22 2007
Paul Burrows
Burrows's ZSpace page
Panel Discussion at Winnipeg's Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House on "Alternatives to Capitalism".
Burrows: Participatory Economics in Theory & Practice
Znet Article, December, 22 2007
Paul Burrows
Burrows's ZSpace page
A discussion of the theory and practice of participatory economics, via personal reflections on Winnipeg's Mondragon Bookstore & Coffee House collective.
Albert: Michael Albert on Social Movements & Getting Parecon
Video, December, 20 2007
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Michael Albert on building social movements and getting Parecon (participatory economics). More info at parecon.org. Video clip from www.kanalb.de in Germany.
Hahnel: Venezuela: Not What You Think
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
Robin Hahnel
Hahnel's ZSpace page
In the case of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution, the mainstream media and politicians in the United States have elevated their game of demonizing all who oppose US foreign policy and business interests to a higher level of absu...
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...
