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Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 9
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
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Ehrenreich: Singer also asked, what do you do when changed conditions, say a natural disaster, require instant decision-making? How do you answer this question? Albert: The question about responding to changes in people's preferences or in materi...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 8
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: OK, let's forget about the slackers v. the nerds and approach the time issue in a more socially serious way. On a panel you organized at the 2003 World Social Forum, a former mayor of Porto Alegre described a real-life experiment in so...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 7
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: That response raises all kinds of questions and sets off some alarm bells in my mind. To start with one of them, which may seem trivial, but is actually very central to our differing visions of a utopian arrangement: When you say "let'...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 6
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: Have you ever tried to calculate the human labor costs of all the planning involved in parecon? Or maybe I should say "time" not dollar "costs." Yes, in the various books the issue of time allotment is certainly addressed. And the dis...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 5
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: Before proceeding to other matters, my big reason for wanting some things to remain marketized is that it would reduce the burden of planning. As you know, some have complained that parecon condemns us to endless meetings, so why not l...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 4
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: I don't want to prolong the skirt discussion (I hardly ever wear them myself), but I am confused about the way you conflate markets with capitalist exploitation. There were markets of one kind or another for thousands of years before c...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert Q/A 3
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: An eloquent answer, and I fully agree on the importance of keeping our vision in sight even while battling in the trenches. But there are alternatives to the present global power arrangements other than -- you might say "short of" -- t...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert, Q/A 2
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Ehrenreich: The book is incredibly optimistic, some would say utopian. At a time when most on the US left are fighting constant erosions of rights and services -- all of which were limited enough in the first place -- what do you think the role of...
Albert: Ehrenreich Interviews Albert
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Here is the first question and answer from a long recently completed but as yet unpublished interview of Michael Albert by Barbara Ehrenreich. The rest will follow, day by day... Ehrenreich: I have heard that there's been a lot of interest around...
Albert: Gloves off, Clarified
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The point isn't that everyone should cease analyzing existing relations and only develop vision and strategy. To propose that would take us from one imbalance to another. The point is that our overall attention to these different tasks needs to ...
Albert: Interview
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In the same spirit as the last message -- this is an interview done for a major Pakistani periodical and for translation to Urdu, as well...again on parecon, and other matters too... 1. What has been the attitude and role of American civil socie...
Albert: Article for Polish Periodical
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I was recently asked for an article on parecon for a prominent Polish periodical of the left, and sent what follows. It is a bit long, an adaptation of earlier essays. I thought I would put it here though -- this kind of thing is happening quite a...
Albert: Parecon and Visionary Practice
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
(An excerpt from the introduction to Parecon: Life After Capitalism...In today’s world large movements espousing similar aspirations struggle worldwide to better the lives of disenfranchised and abused populations around the globe. Some unde...
Albert: Gloves Off
Blog Post, April, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I guess I am all out of patience and running dry on civility as well. Is it unreasonable to want to know where the left stands regarding capitalism and “other worlds”? Are various movements, institutions, media outlets, and constituencies anti-c...
Albert: Organizing an Organization
Blog Post, March, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Back in early 2003 ZNet hosted a call called the We Stand for Peace and Justice statement and site. In a period of just a few weeks, a little over 100,000 people signed the statement. At the time, it was a protest against on-coming war. I have be...
Albert: Lightweight Library
Blog Post, March, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
What political/social readings – not so well known – would I recommend for someone with a small carrying case? I get asked that pretty often. Here are a few: Wilhelm Reich had a very productive and insightful period, followed by devolution into i...
Albert: The Election
Blog Post, March, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Many people seem to think that what candidates say bears dramatically on what they will do. That is only superficially the case unless they make public promises to constituencies that remain powerful during the ensuing administration and to which ...
Albert: Routes To Economic Vision: Efficiency
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
When you hear the word “efficiency” do you get aggressive, expecting a conservative onslaught that you will have to battle against? I do. By this time it is a reflex, even if not always warranted. The reason isn't because efficiency is a bad thing...
Albert: Promoting Parecon, the Paperback
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In a couple of weeks the paperback edition of Parecon: Life After Capitalism, will come off the press in England (Verso being the publisher). I imagine books will be available there and in the U.S. two or three weeks later. Verso has no real mea...
Albert: Canadian Parecon Advocacy Group
Blog Post, March, 10 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
I recently received the following message to the ZNet forum system from Matt Grinder who is a physics student at, I think, the University of British Colombia in Canada. He writes: “A presentation on Participatory Economics we (the vancouver paer...
