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Commentary Albert: Lesser Evil?

Commentary, August, 21 2000 Michael Albert
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The general anti-Nader argument is very simple. To vote/work for Nader means not voting/working for Gore. That's uncontestable. In states with close Gore/Bush ratings, Gore could lose enough votes to Nader for Bush to win the state, and ultimately...

Commentary Albert: Anarchism Today

Commentary, August, 07 2000 Michael Albert
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In lieu of attending the North American Anarchist Conference (NAAC), I was asked: Òwhat do you think of anarchism as an existing and potential ideology and movement?Ó Well, I think if anarchism were an ecology, it would be a tropical rain forest--...

Zmag Article Albert: Class, Race, Sex?!

Zmag Article, July, 01 2000 Michael Albert
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Toward the end of the 1960s, Marxism climbed into the left’s ideological saddle. Left thought elevated economics. Class became paramount. Imperialism became the reigning enemy. Astute activists felt that the plight of the ghettoes, the sex life of...

Commentary Administrator: THE BERLIN TRIBUNAL: MORE SERIOUS THAN THE HAGUE

Commentary, June, 30 2000 Site Administrator
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Last June 3, two tribunals reached opposite conclusions concerning accusations of war crimes brought against NATO for its 1999 bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. In The Hague, Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor at the "International Criminal Trib...

Zmag Article Administrator: CEO Gravy Train Keeps On Rolling

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Site Administrator
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It’s getting harder to tell CEO paychecks from lottery payouts. Except that CEOs expect to win big even when the company loses. When Coca-Cola CEO Douglas Ivester announced his retirement, Bloomberg compensation a...

Zmag Article Administrator: Where Are All the Bodies Buried?

Zmag Article, June, 01 2000 Site Administrator
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In March 1999, NATO forces launched an 11-week nonstop aerial attack upon Yugoslavia that violated the UN charter, NATO’s own charter, the U.S. Constitution, and the War Powers Act. Yugoslavia had invaded no UN or NATO membe...

Commentary Albert: Participatory Economic Program

Commentary, April, 16 2000 Michael Albert
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Participatory economics is a set of institutions for accomplishing production, consumption, and allocation while meeting peopleÕs needs and furthering their development; is a set of institutions designed to propel equity, solidarity, diversity, an...

Commentary Albert: Economics and the Rest Of Society

Commentary, April, 02 2000 Michael Albert
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A Participatory Economy produces, consumes, and allocates to meet peopleÕs needs and develop their capacities. It also promotes equity, solidarity, diversity, and self-management. Its central features are workersÕ and consumersÕ councils, remunera...

Commentary Administrator: ANTI-CORPORATE PROTECTION MARKET

Commentary, March, 30 2000 Site Administrator
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One of the more entertaining pieces of email to cross my screen in the last few weeks, was a cover letter with a "Guide to the Seattle Meltdown: A Compendium of Activists at the WTO Ministerial." The letter noted that the "perceived success" of th...

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Participatory Allocation

Commentary, March, 26 2000 Michael Albert
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Participatory planning is the allocation component of participatory economics. Producers and consumers organized in councils cooperatively negotiate labor, resource, and output allocations. The procedure organizes economic choices and simultaneous...

Commentary Albert: Vision Matters

Commentary, March, 19 2000 Michael Albert
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So far I have sent out an economic vision and strategy commentary each of the past eight Sundays. I assumed we would quickly agree that we don't have but that we do very much need a shared economic vision, and that to get one we need to collective...

Commentary Albert: Participatory Allocation

Commentary, March, 12 2000 Michael Albert
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An economy needs some procedure for coordinating different workers' activities with one another and with the desires of consumers. The procedure, called economic allocation, determines how much of each input and output is used or produced, and whe...

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Dignified Work

Commentary, March, 05 2000 Michael Albert
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We want to dignify work so we seek to equalize the empowerment effects of all jobs. But how?

Zmag Article Administrator: Booming Economic Inequality, Falling Voter Turnout

Zmag Article, March, 01 2000 Site Administrator
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We should have a lot more to show for an economic boom that recently broke the record for the longest expansion in our nation’s history. February marked 107 months—nine years—of uninterrupted economic growth beginning in March...

Commentary Albert: Dignified Work

Commentary, February, 27 2000 Michael Albert
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The issue of Dignified Work has two primary components: (1) what is a just division of tasks for each person; and (2) what division of tasks do we need to adopt in order to have our work foster self-management?

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Self Management

Commentary, February, 20 2000 Michael Albert
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Agreeing that self-management, or decision making input in proportion as one is affected, is a core goal for a participatory economic movement, what demands can we fight for today that will help move us toward self-management tomorrow?

Commentary Albert: Self Management as a Goal

Commentary, February, 13 2000 Michael Albert
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How much say should each actor in an economy have over decisions in that economy? Why should we aim for self-management defined as decision-making input proportionate to the degree one is affected by outcomes?

Commentary Albert: A Program Seeking Just Rewards

Commentary, February, 06 2000 Michael Albert
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Suppose we agree that people ought to be paid only according to how hard they work and how onerous their work conditions are. To attain these Just Rewards we must reduce and ultimately eliminate reward for property, power, and output; reduce and f...

Commentary Albert: Just Rewards

Commentary, January, 30 2000 Michael Albert
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In a desirable economy what income does each actor get to enjoy? What is the basis for remuneration?

Commentary Albert: Movement for a Participatory Economy: An Overview

Commentary, January, 23 2000 Michael Albert
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Besides immediate objectives, great social movements need long-run goals for inspiration and guidance. The abolitionist movement to end slavery and the movement for the eight-hour day both in the nineteenth century, the movement for women's suffra...

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