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Spannos: LAC, Day One: Beyond Bush
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
Chris Spannos
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Last night Life After Capitalism 2004 kicked off it's three day series with "Beyond Bush", an evening of visionary resistance. This event brought activists and organisers from throughout the US, and world, to begin the week of events pro...
Spannos: Architecture of the New Society
Blog Post, August, 20 2004
Chris Spannos
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Here is an essay I recently wrote about how cities, architecture and spacial design may evolve within a participatory economy. It was published on ZNet but I wanted to put it here hoping to get feed back. So please feel free to comment....Architec...
Spannos: Political Vision for the Good Society
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
Chris Spannos
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For those interested in developing vision and strategy, exploring where we want to go as social movements, and how to get there, I thought you may be interested in an interview the Vancouver Parecon Collective did with Z commentator Stephen Shalom...
Spannos: Life After Capitalism Conference
Blog Post, August, 17 2004
Chris Spannos
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Well, four more days to go before the Life After Capitalism conference being held in New York City, beginning this Friday and continuing throughout Saturday and Sunday. Myself and fellow Vancouver Parecon Collective member Matt Grinder will be at...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Pareconish Intellectual Agendas
Blog Post, August, 16 2004
Michael Albert
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Here is still another draft chapter for a new book about participatory economics and the rest of society that I am working on -- this one is for near the end of the book...and shorter than most. + New ideas have intellectual value largely reve...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Athletics
Blog Post, August, 15 2004
Michael Albert
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By this point, talking about parecon's implications for athletics and athletes ought to be relatively easy. It is barely different than the case in other domains such as science, art, etc. There is, however, one interesting new angle to address, t...
Albert: Reply to Brian Dominick's Reaction About Artists and Parecon
Blog Post, August, 14 2004
Michael Albert
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Brian, I am not entirely sure I am understanding your points. I am pretty sure that I haven't heard anyone else say quite what you are saying, and that it is not a set of concerns that are going to arise often. Still, I want to try to reply, if no...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Art
Blog Post, August, 13 2004
Michael Albert
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Here is another chapter in draft for the book in progress. This one does have a section missing on the conditions of artists in the U.S., etc. which will have stats about artists doing ads instead of art, and so on...but otherwise it is ready for ...
Albert: Parecon and Society: Journalism
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Michael Albert
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Here is another draft chapter for the book in progress about parecon and the rest of society. This is about media and jouralism. Parecon: Journalism [Draft -- not for attribution, use, or display outside of this blog, please. But comments here a...
Albert: Parecon and Society -- Crime
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Michael Albert
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Here is a draft of a proposed chapter for the new book I am now working on... The proposed book title, by the way, is Bread and Life with the subtitle Participatory Economics and Society. Here is the draft of the crime chapter titled Parecon: Crim...
Albert: Parecon and Society Book Project
Blog Post, August, 12 2004
Michael Albert
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I am working on a new book and thought I would use the blog to try out first drafts, etc. I mentioned this before the blog snafus, and repeat now. The book will be about the implications of participatory economics for other parts of life and vice...
Albert: DNC Speech
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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I got an email asking if I could write up a on eminute speech for the DNC -- what I would say on prime time. The request is very odd, but here is what I jotted off...probably would take a bit more than a minute though, to deliver... Given that th...
Albert: Thought Dreams -- The Book...
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Arbeiter Ring Pre4ss has just released (and I just received through the mail) Thought Dreams: Radical Theory for the Twenty First Century, a new book of mine. Thought Dreams, the book, is my best effort to take an audience, starting from scratch...
Albert: Worrying About Terror
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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I actually think there is some reason to worry that there will be a terrorist attack between now and the election. Not because the government says so, of course. They haven't got a clue. But because from the perspective of bin Laden and co., it ma...
Albert: Inquiries
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Recently many people are asking why did the U.S. government ignore various indicators leading up to 9/11 that perhaps something horrible would happen if there weren't changes in U.S. policies. Okay…I suppose it isn't an entirely unreasonable quest...
Albert: Beyond Capitalism
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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I have been asked for a short essay for a book that will appear at the ESF, this October. I have to rush it...and here is a draft. Anyone who wants to send me any suggestions, please feel free. But the commenting system is down. Beyond Capitalis...
Albert: Soc Student…Last
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
> I can't help but wonder whether any system can survive if it is too complex for the general public to understand. Is this serous? Parecon has a few key institutions and concepts, which a junior high school student could easily understand. To ...
Albert: Soc student…Sixth
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
> In his model, Albert argues for balanced job complexes instead of a labor market. Balanced job complexes replace corporate division of labor – not labor markets. Hiring and also firing of workers is not a market exchange because the terms are ...
Albert: Soc Student…fifth
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
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> 1. Ease of Communicating the Parecon Model to Others – Personally, I find that a major obstacle to many reforms is the inability to plainly summarize the proposed reform and the rationale for implementing it (i.e. as if one is organizing behind ...
Albert: Soc – Fourth Student
Blog Post, July, 11 2004
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The fourth student likes the ideas that, First, “participatory consumers must weigh the benefits of consumption requests against the sacrifices required to produce them.” Second, “participatory consumers must distinguish reasonable consumption req...
