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Halling: Participatory Law - A Law of No Gods, No Masters

Znet Article, September, 11 2008 Matt Halling
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...

Albert: Replying to Social Ecology Forum Post 1

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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I received a post from Michael Caplan, who is engineering/moderating this debate...I'm not sure who it is from, but hi.

Albert: Replying to Staudenmaier

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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What have we embarked on--keeping up is hard to do. And I've even got another debate going on, with a prominent member of ISO, about Marxism. So, apologies. I should take longer with this, to make it more concise and exact...but with everything el...

Staudenmaier: Replying to Albert

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Peter Staudenmaier
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I think we’re getting into more detail in this thread...

Albert: Rejoining Staudenmaier

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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I am happy to hear many social ecologists agree with balanced job complexes. I'll follow the debate topics you raise in the order you propose, but do so as I would write a private letter, to make our debates less formal. I apologize for the length...

Albert: Summarizing Participatory Economics

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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The task of developing a vision for any sphere of social life is to set out the functions the domain must accomplish, the values we hold dear, and the institutions that can accomplish the functions while propelling the values.

Albert: Exploring Libertarian Municipalism and Parecon...

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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In early November, 1999, ZNet posted an article by Michael Albert entitled Assessing Libertarian Municipalism. This page is devoted to discussion of that article. It includes messages received and rejoinders and explorations that ensued, as best w...

Albert: Assessing Libertarian Municipalism

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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On a recent speaking tour to Montreal (1999) a number of folks asked me my reactions to Libertarian Municipalism-a vision for politics emanating from the "School of Social Ecology." Others put it to me more specifically: How did I react to the rej...

Albert: Is Socialism Still on the Agenda?

Znet Article, August, 26 2008 Michael Albert
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To answer the title question, I have to provide answers for three possible meanings of "socialism" and also for a semantic issue, the use of the word "socialism," in any form.

Albert: Reply to Horowitz 4

Znet Article, August, 25 2008 Michael Albert
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I can understand being busy, I have that problem too... When you want to stop our exchange, however, you will have to stop writing content. As long as you reply with new points, I will reply in turn. It is my habit, and I type quickly.